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  2. Calvary - Wikipedia

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    Altar at the traditional site of Golgotha The altar at the traditional site of Golgotha Chapel of Mount Calvary, painted by Luigi Mayer. The English names Calvary and Golgotha derive from the Vulgate Latin Calvariae, Calvariae locus and locum (all meaning "place of the Skull" or "a Skull"), and Golgotha used by Jerome in his translations of Matthew 27:33, [2] Mark 15:22, [3] Luke 23:33, [4 ...

  3. Church of the Holy Sepulchre - Wikipedia

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    Golgotha and its chapels are just south of the main altar of the catholicon. Calvary is split into two chapels: one Greek Orthodox and one Catholic, each with its own altar. On the left (north) side, the Greek Orthodox chapel's altar is placed over the supposed rock of Calvary (the 12th Station of the Cross), which can be touched through a hole ...

  4. Visigoths - Wikipedia

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    The Visigothic crypt (the Crypt of San Antolín) in the Palencia Cathedral is a Visigothic chapel from the mid-7th century, built during the reign of Wamba to preserve the remains of the martyr Saint Antoninus of Pamiers, a Visigothic-Gallic nobleman brought from Narbonne to Visigothic Hispania in 672 or 673 by Wamba himself. These are the only ...

  5. Golgotha (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Golgotha (also known as Calvary) was the hill on which Jesus was crucified. Golgotha or Golgota may also refer to: In the Eastern Orthodox Church, a Golgotha is a representation of the crucified Jesus; see Crucifixion in the arts#Eastern church

  6. Church of the Nativity - Wikipedia

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    The Grotto of the Nativity, the place where Jesus is said to have been born, is an underground space which forms the crypt of the Church of the Nativity. It is situated underneath its main altar, and it is normally accessed by two staircases on either side of the chancel.

  7. The Garden Tomb - Wikipedia

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    The Garden Tomb (Arabic: بستان قبر المسيح, Hebrew: גן הקבר, literally "the Tomb Garden") is an ancient rock-cut tomb in Jerusalem that functions as a site of Christian pilgrimage attracting hundreds of thousands of annual visitors, especially Evangelicals and other Protestants, as some Protestant Christians consider it to be the empty tomb from whence Jesus of Nazareth ...

  8. Great Retreat (Serbia) - Wikipedia

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    The Great Retreat, also known in Serbian historiography as the Albanian Golgotha [4] (Serbian: Албанска голгота, Albanska golgota), refers to the retreat of the Royal Serbian Army through the mountains of Albania during the 1915–16 winter of World War I.

  9. Jerusalem (painting) - Wikipedia

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    It is also known as Golgotha, Consumatum Est and The Crucifixion (La Crucifixion). The foreground depicts the ground of Golgotha with the shadows of three crucified men: Jesus and the two thieves. Further back in the picture is a crowd of people moving away from the scene. In the background is the city of Jerusalem under a cloudy sky.