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Confessio - A niche for relics located near the altar.
Crossing - the area where the choir, nave, and transepts meet.
Confessional - A small, enclosed booth used for the Sacrament of Penance, often called confession, or Reconciliation.
confessio
A type of crypt which consists of a series of linked passages. The most famous confessio crypt during the Middle Ages was that of Old Saint Peter's church in Rome, which contained the tomb os Saint Peter. See also crypt
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Photo: Confessional # - Monastery, Jasna Gora, Czestochowa, Poland - LARGER size
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic ...
Augustine, The Confessions , IX, 7:
It was at that time too that you [God] revealed to your bishop Ambrose in a vision the place where the bodies of the martyrs Protasius and Gervasius were hidden.
in diameter, raised above the confessio or crypt, was placed at the west end of the church.
Priests from the nearest mission periodically visited to say Mass, conduct marriages, hear Confession, officiate at funerals, etc.
2. declaration, statement, vow, testimony, claim, confession, assertion, affirmation, acknowledgment, avowal, attestation a profession of faith
Translations
profession [prəˈfeʃən] N ...
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