In explanation of these different modes of
speaking, the Benedictine Editor comments thus Cat. xiii. § 4,
note 1.: “The Church of the Resurrection
was built on part of the hill Golgotha (intra montem G.):
but the actual rock on which our Lord was crucified was not within the
limits of the Church, yet not far off, namely about “a
stone’s throw,” as the author of the Jerusalem
Itinerary says. For the Church had been built on the site of
the Sepulchre. Some think that the place of Crucifixion was
included in the vast area which was enclosed with colonnades between
the Sepulchre and the Basilica,…that Golgotha was midway between
the Basilica of the Crucifixion, and the Anastasis or Sepulchre.
But the area in question Constantine paved with stones, and it must
therefore have been flat, as we learn from Eusebius Vit. Const. iii.
c. 35.;
Golgotha, on the contrary, stood up high Cat. x. § 19; xiii.
§ 39., and
moreover shewed a cleft made there at Christ’s death xiii. § 39., which would either have been a hindrance to
the paving or covered up by it. In addition to this, from the
doors of the Basilica there seems to have been a view of the Sacred
Tomb Eus. Vit.
Const. iii. c. 36.. This would have been obstructed if
Golgotha had been between them.”