Jerusalem (Old city) - Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Golgotha)

THE CHURCH WHICH HAS BEEN BUILT ON THE SITE OF CALVARY 

(1) Further to the east has been built another huge church on the site which in Hebrew is called Golgotha. From the roof hangs a large bronze wheel for lamps, and below it stands a great silver cross, fixed in the same socket as the wooden cross on which the Saviour of mankind once suffered. (2) There is a cave in this Church, cut into the rock below the place of the Lord's Cross, where there is an altar on which the Sacrifice is offered for the souls of certain privileged men. Their bodies are laid in the court in front of the door of this Church of Golgotha until the Holy Mysteries for the Dead are completed.

(transl. Wilkinson)