The Name of Calvary

The origin of the name of Calvary is an Ancient Hebrew tradition which has been passed down for centuries, both before and after Christ. This belief has since been supported by private revelations, which have been approved by the Catholic Church. Among these are the famous revelations of the German nun, Anne Catherine Emmerich.

According to Anne Catherine, after Adam was banished from Paradise, he wept over his sin in the same grotto on Mount Olivet where Jesus would later sweat blood and water during His agony. Seth, the son of Adam and Eve, who was born to them as a consolation for Abel's death, was promised to Eve in the grotto of the holy manger of Bethlehem, and in that same grotto she gave birth to him.

Golgotha, or Calvary, which means ‘the place of the skull’ is the place where Jesus died. Many centuries earlier, the Prophet Eliseus was shown that buried deep within the hill of Calvary, were the bones, and skull, of Adam. The Holy Prophet wished to take the skull away with him, but his Angel companion told him that this was forbidden. Because of this revelation to Eliseus, the hill of Calvary came to be called Golgotha - ‘the place of the skull’, Adam’s skull.

It was on this same hill of Calvary that Our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified. The Cross which Jesus died on, for the sin of Adam, was placed on Golgotha - directly over the skull of Adam. And this same location is the exact center of the earth.

There have been many times in history that such amazing ‘coincidences’, as some might call it, have occurred. But there is no such thing as a ‘coincidence’ with God. Nothing happens ‘on accident’.