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confessio

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confession, confessio
1.The tomb of a martyr or confessor; if an altar was erected over the grave, the name was also extended to the altar and to the subterranean chamber in which it stood; in later times a basilica was sometimes erected over the chamber and the entire building was known as a confession.
2. The space immediately below, or in front of, the primary altar of a church.


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This is not to mention the recent Gaza offensive which rallied the Arab street, in all of its confessio al colors, against the war.
Some of his writings, the Confessio and Letter to Corocticu, survive, though there is debate over some information to do with St Patrick.
Although limiting himself to "forensic justification" as a sotieriological formulation and Christian confessio as appeal "for" and "to" the oppressed rather than "by" them, (p.
 
 
 
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