Passion bearer
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In Orthodox Christianity, a passion bearer (Russian: страстотéрпец, strastoterpets) 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. Thus all martyrs are passion bearers, but not all passion bearers are martyrs.
Famous passion bearers include the entire Imperial Family of Russia who were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
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