Two days before Easter Sunday is another important Christian holiday. Known as Good Friday, the holy day commemorates the ...

In many of these references, Golgotha, which is also sometimes called Calvary, is described as the “place of the skull” or ...

while the other 'Calvary' may have been enclosed within it. The resemblance of that elevation, with its two caves, to a human skull, with its two eye-sockets, might have suggested the name of Golgotha ...

He was beaten and forced to carry a wooden cross to the place of execution — called Golgotha or Calvary — where he was nailed to the cross and left to die. Jesus was eventually taken down from ...