Calvary

What this place is

• Holy site — the little hill outside the wall that the pilgrim of 333 was shown as the place of the crucifixion

Glosses

• What the pilgrim of 333 was actually shown The earliest surviving description of the holy places was written by an anonymous traveller from Bordeaux in 333, while Constantine’s churches were going up, and it is far barer than what has been built on it. Golgotha…

Who is recorded here

• Jesus death · AD 30
• Jesus death · AD 30
• Adam burial

What happened here

• crucifixion of Jesus AD 30

In art

• Calvary — Maestro Espressionista di Santa Chiara (1330)
• Calvary with a Carthusian Monk — Jean de Beaumetz (1390)
• Calvary — Giovanni di Paolo (1450)
• The Lamentation over the dead Christ — Dieric Bouts (1460)
• The Mourning of Christ — Hugo van der Goes (1480)

About the place

Calvary or Golgotha, derived from Golgolta, was a site immediately outside Roman Jerusalem's walls where, according to Christianity's four canonical gospels, Jesus was crucified.

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