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Calvary or Golgotha are the English language/Western Christian names given to the site, outside of ancient Jerusalem’s early 1st century walls, ascribed to Jesus's crucifixion. The exact location is handed down from antiquity. Although the significance of the name is lost to modernity, Calvariae Locus in Latin, Κρανίου Τόπος (Kraniou Topos) in Greek, and Gûlgaltâ in Aramaic all denote "place of [the] skull". In some Christian and Jewish traditions, the name refers to the location of the skull of Adam. The word "Calvary" comes from Calvaria in the Latin Vulgate. Although usage since the sixth century has been to designate Calvary as a mountain, the Gospels call it merely a "place." The word "calvary" is only found in the King James Version of the English Bible in Luke 23:33. The word "calvary" is not from the original Greek versions, being the Latin gloss given for "Golgotha" in the Vulgate. The original Greek versions instead use the Greek gloss, "Κρανίου Τόπος". Roman emperor Constantine the Great built the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on what was thought to be the sepulchre of Jesus in 326–335 AD, near Calvary. According to Christian tradition, the Tomb of Jesus and the True Cross were discovered at that site by the Empress Helena, mother of Constantine, in 325. Regarding the location of the church, there has been some question of the legitimacy of its claims as it appears to sit within Jerusalem's Old City Walls. However, although the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is now within Jerusalem's Old City Walls, it was beyond them at the time in question. The Jerusalem city walls were expanded by Herod Agrippa in 41–44 and only then enclosed the site of the future Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Professor Sir Henry Chadwick (Dean Emeritus of Christ Church Oxford University) comments: "Hadrian's builders replanned the old city, incidentally confirming the bringing of Golgotha inside a new town wall" (a fact implicit in a Good Friday sermon 'On the Pascha' by Melito, bis
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