Editing Calvary (section)

{{Short description|Site of Jesus' crucifixion}}
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[[File:Golgotha (Church of the Holy Sepulchre).jpg|thumb|Traditional site of Golgotha in the [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]]]]

'''Calvary''' ({{langx|la|Calvariae}} or {{lang|la|Calvariae locus}}) or '''Golgotha''' ({{langx|grc-x-biblical|Γολγοθᾶ|Golgothâ}}) was a site immediately outside [[Jerusalem in Christianity|Jerusalem]]'s walls where, according to Christianity's four canonical gospels, [[Jesus in Christianity|Jesus]] was [[crucifixion of Jesus|crucified]].<ref>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Calvary}}</ref>

Since at least the early medieval period, it has been a destination for [[pilgrimage in Christianity|pilgrimage]]. The exact location of Calvary has been traditionally associated with a place now enclosed within one of the southern chapels of the [[Simultaneum|multidenominational]] [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]], a site [[Christian folklore|said]] to have been recognized by the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] empress [[Helena, mother of Constantine I|Helena]], mother of [[Constantine the Great]], during her visit to the [[Holy Land]] in 325.

Other locations have been suggested: in the 19th century, [[Protestants|Protestant]] scholars proposed a different location near the [[Garden Tomb]] on Green Hill (now "Skull Hill") about {{convert|500|m|abbr=on}} north of the traditional site and historian [[Joan E. Taylor|Joan Taylor]] has more recently proposed a location about {{convert|175|m|abbr=on}} to its south-southeast.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}

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