Passion bearer

Russian icon of the Passion-bearers, Saints Boris and Gleb (mid-14th century, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).

In Eastern Christianity, a passion bearer (Russian: страстотéрпец, romanized: 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]

  1. ^ ""Orthodox Terminology", Church of the Mother of God". churchmotherofgod.org. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
  2. ^ Fr. Christopher Zugger (2001), The Forgotten; Catholics in the Soviet Empire from Lenin to Stalin, Syracuse University Press, pages 157-169.