En este documento, Tertuliano no diferencia martyr de confessor, como se hara despues, sino que habitualmente adopta el termino
martyrium para significar la condena a muerte ya ejecutada, que es lo que constituye martir al cristiano, aunque el martirio comprenda todos los sufrimientos padecidos desde el momento del arresto.
El
martyrium hierosolimitano estaba asimismo precedido por un atrio que lo conectaba con la ciudad, que en Cordoba se identificaria con el espacio anterior a la capilla del Sagrario--cuya decoracion contrato Arbasia (19) con la colaboracion de Mohedano y los hermanos Juan Bautista y Francisco Peroli (20)--que enlazaba la nueva capilla con el resto del recinto catedralicio, imagen de la Jerusalen Celeste que se hace corresponder con la Jerusalen real, aspecto en el que insistiremos mas adelante.
These texts include the letter of Simeon of Bet Arsam, the
Martyrium Arathae (via translation), and the Book of Himyarites.
Although merthyr generally means 'martyr' in modern Welsh, the meaning is close to the Latin
martyrium (a mausoleum or church built over a martyr's remains).
Benvenuto even goes so far as to state that Dolcino's execution could be considered a martyrdom if it were not for his clear intentions against the Church ("Poterat martyr dici, si poena faceret
martyrium, non voluntas").
175, Turnhout: Brepols, 1965, 175-234: 186-7: "Quae omnia nunc a nobis sunt praetermittenda, ut estimo, exceptis eorum edificiorum structuris quae in locis sanctis, crucis videlicet et resurrectionis, mirificae fabricata sunt." That Adomnan himself was interested in conveying contemporary social realities in Jerusalem is questionable: For the argument that even Adomnan's contributions to the account are intended to speak more to the contemporary concerns of ecclesiasts in Iona, which existed at the edge of Latin Christendom, see Thomas O'Loughlin, "Perceiving Palestine in Early Christian Ireland:
Martyrium, Exegetical Key, Relic and Liturgical Space," Eriu 54, 2004, 125-37: 126-7.