Passion bearer
In
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 directly 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 pamphlets which denounced Nazism), Mother Maria Skobtsova, and the entire imperial family of Russia, executed by the Bolsheviks on 17 July 1918.[3]
Byzantine Catholicism
Following the
Dominican Sisters founded in August 1917 by Mother Catherine Abrikosova, began to appear in the open. At the same time, the martyrology of the Russian Greek Catholic Church
began to be investigated.
In 2001,
In 2003, a
Congregation for the Causes of Saints by the Bishops of the Catholic Church in Russia.[6]
List of passion bearers
Before 1054
After 1054
20th century
See also
References
- ^ ""Orthodox Terminology", Church of the Mother of God". churchmotherofgod.org. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
- ^ 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 9 May 2022.
- ^ "Bl. Leonid Feodorov", Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Byzantine Catholic Church
- ^ 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 9 May 2022.
- ^ "Saint Doulas, Passion-Bearer of Egypt". www.oca.org. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ "Martyrdom of Boris and Gleb: text - IntraText CT". www.intratext.com. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ "Translation of the Relics of the Holy Passionbearers Boris and Gleb (in Baptism Roman and David—1072 and 1115)". www.oca.org. Retrieved 10 July 2021.