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    In Eastern Christianity, a passion bearer (Russian: страстотéрпец, romanized: strastoterpets, IPA: [strəstɐˈtʲɛrpʲɪts]) is one of the various customary...
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    deaths. They were canonised in 2000 by the Russian Orthodox Church as passion bearers. In the years following his death, Nicholas was reviled by Soviet historians...
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    family as passion bearers. On 3 February 2016, the Bishop's Council of the Russian Orthodox Church canonised Botkin as Righteous Passion-Bearer Yevgeny...
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    Ivan Kharitonov (category Passion bearers)
    1918 at Ekaterinburg. Like the Romanovs, Kharitonov was canonized as a passion-bearer of Soviet oppression by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in...
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    Canonization of the Romanovs (category Passion bearers)
    canonized Nicholas II's personal physician, Eugene Botkin, as a righteous passion bearer. The canonizations were controversial for both branches of the Russian...
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    Alexander Schmorell (category Passion bearers)
    June 1942 to February 1943. In 2012, he was glorified as a saint and passion bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, and is venerated by Orthodox...
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    and Alexandra. In 2000, Anastasia and her family were canonized as passion bearers by the Russian Orthodox Church. The family had previously been canonized...
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    Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) (category Passion bearers)
    2000, the Russian Orthodox Church canonized her as Saint Alexandra the Passion Bearer. Alexandra was born on 6 June 1872 at the New Palace in Darmstadt as...
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    Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (category Passion bearers)
    following the Russian Revolution of 1917 resulted in her canonization as a passion bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church. In the 1990s, her remains were identified...
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    Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (category Passion bearers)
    following the Russian Revolution of 1917 resulted in her canonization as a passion bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church. During her lifetime, Maria, too young...
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