"Hail Calvary, thou mountain hoar, Wet with our Redeemer’s gore!"
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Thomas Warton, "The Crusade", Poems (New ed., 1777), p. 59
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Calvary (Latin: Calvariae or Calvariae locus) or Golgotha (Greek: Γολγοθᾶ, Golgothâ) was a site immediately outside Jerusalem's walls where, according to Christianity's four canonical gospels, Jesus was crucified.
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