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What is a martyrium?

What is a martyrium? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A tomb or other edifice erected in homage to a martyr.
  2. (rhetoric) Confirming something by referring to one's own experience.
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The martyrium, which housed the Saint's relics, created the image of a monumental tomb which formed an integral part of the entire structure.
Another 896 legend, his martyrium, makes him labour and suffer in Mysore.
Two great piers were inserted in the martyrium to support the raised choir.
The existence of a church in the forum courtyard of Lincoln and the martyrium of Saint Alban on the outskirts of Roman Verulamium are exceptional.
This was intended to make the martyrium, as the depository of the treasure and the Veil, safe from all accidents.
To support the vaulting of this ambulatory a new wall was built round the martyrium.

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