Passion bearer
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In Eastern Christianity, a passion bearer (Russian: страстотéрпец, tr. strastoterpets, IPA: [strəstɐˈtʲɛrpʲɪts]) is one of the various customary titles for saints used in commemoration at divine services when honouring their feast on the Church Calendar; it is not generally used by Catholics of the Roman Rite,[1] but it is used within the Eastern Catholic Churches.[2]
Definition
The term can be defined as a person who faces his or her death in a Christ-like manner. Unlike martyrs, passion bearers are not explicitly killed for their faith, though they hold to that faith with piety and true love of God. Thus, although all martyrs are passion bearers, not all passion bearers are martyrs.[citation needed]
In Eastern Orthodoxy
Notable passion bearers include the brothers Boris and Gleb, Alexander Schmorell (executed for being a member of the White Rose student movement which wrote and distributed Samizdat that denounced Nazism), Mother Maria Skobtsova, and the entire Imperial Family of Russia, executed by the Bolsheviks on July 17, 1918.[3]
Byzantine Catholicism
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Passion bearers
Unified Church
20th century Orthodox Passion bearers
References
- ^ ""Orthodox Terminology", Church of the Mother of God". churchmotherofgod.org. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
- ^ Fr. Christopher Zugger (2001), The Forgotten; Catholics in the Soviet Empire from Lenin to Stalin, Syracuse University Press, pages 157-169.
- ^ "Feasts and saints with names like "passion-bearer"". www.oca.org. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
- ^ Fr. Christopher Zugger (2001), The Forgotten; Catholics in the Soviet Empire from Lenin to Stalin, Syracuse University Press, pages 157-169.
- ^ "catholicmartyrs - News from the Catholic Newmartyrs". en.catholicmartyrs.org. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
- ^ "Saint Doulas, Passion-Bearer of Egypt". www.oca.org. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
- ^ "Martyrdom of Boris and Gleb: text - IntraText CT". www.intratext.com. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
- ^ "Translation of the Relics of the Holy Passionbearers Boris and Gleb (in Baptism Roman and David—1072 and 1115)". www.oca.org. Retrieved 2021-07-10.