Definition of "martyrium" [martyrium]

• A church or other edifice built at a site, especially a tomb, associated with a Christian martyr or saint. (noun)

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• "What you were perhaps unable so far to discern from the photographs (which would be exactly the effect desired by Dientzenhofer) is the circumstance that the altar painting which you can see (showing the martyrium of St. Dionysius by the Bamberg court painter Sebastian Reinhard from 1714) is not actually on the high altar."
• "No, the problem is your unwillingness to let other people do your imagining for you. martyrium Says:"
• "Note 150: Malmesbury, Canal, 137 — 38: "Sedatur christiana gens miraculo; paruulique martyrium exoculata …" back"