Jerusalem: Church of the Holy Sepulchre-Calvary
Jerusalem. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre. A woman kneeling under the altar to get as close as possible to the silver slab marking the spot where the cross stood at the Twelfth Station—Golgotha in Aramaic, Calvary in Latin. There is a large crack in the bedrock at the right of the altar, believed to have been caused by the earthquake that occurred at the time of Jesus’ death on the cross, as told in Matthew 27:51: “… and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent… ” The crack goes down to the Chapel of Adam beneath Calvary, where, according to tradition, Adam is buried and Jesus’ blood dripped onto his skull.
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