Passion bearer

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In the Russian Orthodox Christianity, a passion-bearer (Russian: strastoterpets, страстотерпец) is 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.

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