Calvary
[bare skull ], Golgotha [skull ]. The
place of our Lord's crucifixion; so called from some fanciful
resemblance which it bore to a human skull. The present church of “the
Holy Sepulchre” has no claim to be considered the site thereof; it is
far more likely that the “mosque of Omar,” or the dome of the rock,
occupies the real site.
A Calvary.
A representation of the successive scenes of the Passion of Christ
in a series of pictures, etc., in a church. The shrine containing the
representations.
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