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Encyclopedia > Passion bearer

A passion-bearer is one who faces his 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. Russian Orthodox.


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Indeed he translates strength, passion, identity, and the pride of belonging by means of the refined, silky arpeggio of his flag.
The fury of passions which still blazes around the Piazza when there's earth in the Piazza is itself another manifestation of Siena's nostalgia for its past as a free and bold City-State.
The Palio, though to the non-Sienese it may be and appear a spectacle (a spectacle of the crowd whose love and passion sweats in the burning struggle of the ten protagonists), is to the Sienese and to the Contrada members a matter of suffering, of enthusiasm or of disappointment.
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