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Skull Hill (Golgotha)

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Skull Hill (Golgotha)
Skull Hill (Golgotha)
Skull Hill (Golgotha)
Skull Hill (Golgotha)
Skull Hill (Golgotha)
Skull Hill (Golgotha)
Skull Hill (Golgotha)
Skull Hill (Golgotha)
Skull Hill (Golgotha)
Skull Hill (Golgotha)
Skull Hill (Golgotha)
Skull Hill (Golgotha)
Skull Hill (Golgotha)
Skull Hill (Golgotha)
Skull Hill (Golgotha)
Calvary, or Golgotha , was, according to the Gospels, a site immediately outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus was crucified.Matthew's and Mark's gospels translate the term to mean place of [the] skull , in Latin rendered Calvariæ Locus, from which the English word Calvary derives. Its traditional site, identified by Helena of Constantinople, the mother of Constantine I, in 325, is at the site of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. A 19th-century suggestion places it at the site now known as Skull Hill, some 500 m to the north . Historian Joan Taylor bases a location c. 175 metres south-southeast of the traditional site on her reading of textual evidence.
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