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CALVARY, the scene of Christ's crucifixion; the word is the English form of the Vulgate, Calvaria, Greek Kp&viov, "skull," Hebrew, Golgotha. The name is applied to a sculptured represen tation of the Crucifixion, either inside a church or in the open air. Important examples of the latter are the Sacro Monte (1486) at Varallo in Piedmont, and those at Guimiliau (1581), Plougastel (1602), St. Thegonnec (161o) and Pleyben, near Quimper (1670), in Brittany, all in good preservation.