Franciscan friars re-enact the crucifixion of Jesus at Golgotha
Golgotha is a real place, once a hill in Jerusalem, where Jesus Christ was nailed to a cross and died for our sins.
Be it in Latin, Greek, or Aramaic, the word or term that we know today as 'Golgotha' means 'the place of the skull'. That is also how it was described in all four of the Biblical Gospels.
There are many important places in human history where events have taken place which have shaped humanity. There are none more important than Golgotha, for it was here that Jesus died so that you and I, and indeed the entire human race, might have the chance at eternal salvation.
Jesus had been arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane, endured six separate hearings or trials in one overnight and morning period, was beaten, whipped, and mocked, and had a crown of thorns embedded into his forehead.
The Romans hoped that this unmerciful treatment would satisfy the Jewish leaders' appetite for Jesus' blood, but it did no good. Their cry continued to be "Crucify him!" And so that is what Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor over Judea, ordered to be done.
