CALVARY, the place where Christ was crucified. In three of the Gospels the Hebrew name Golgotha (place of a skull) is given; and in Luke (xxiii. 33), where we find Calvary in the authorized version, the original is not Calvary, but Cranion (skapion), a diminutive of skapion (a skull). Calvaria is the Latin translation of this word, adopted by the Vulgate, from which it found its way into our version. For the particulars connected with the site of the Crucifixion, see GOLGOTHA.