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 Cranov (κρανος), a diminutive of κρανος (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.

a term used in Catholic countries, denotes a chapel of devotion, erected on a hillock near a city, in memory of the place where our Saviour suffered.

in Heraldry, a cross set upon steps, supposed to resemble the cross of our Saviour.