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confessio|kənˈfɛsɪəʊ|
[med.L., f. late L. ‘burial-place of martyrs’: see confession.]
= confession 8.
1830–38Britton Dict. Archit. (1838) 96/1 Confessio, a term applied by early ecclesiastical writers to the sepulchres of martyrs and confessors. Ibid., Confessio has been used to denote a crypt, beneath the great altar of a church in which the relics and bodies of saints were buried. 1875Encycl. Brit. III. 415/1 Beneath the altar was the confessio, a subterranean chapel, containing the body of the patron saint, and relics of other holy persons. 1959E. A. Fisher Anglo-Saxon Archit. i. 61 These confessios are different in design and purpose from the later larger crypts underlying the whole of the chancel. |