When someone is glorified as a saint and martyr in the Orthodox Church, when is the term "Passionbearer" appropriate? Specifically, could you conceive of that being an appropriate title for someone like Terri in the event they were glorified?
The Passion-Bearer designation certainly comes closest to Terri's circumstance, but doesn't quite fit (at least as I understand it). The distinctive feature of Passion-Bearers is that they died for their Christian faith, but were not killed for it. That is, they remained in harm's way, or acquiesed to their own deaths, in obedience to Christ's command to "take up thy cross and follow Me," but their Christian faith was not the motive of their murderers or executioners.
The models for the form of sanctity recognized by the title Passion-Bearer were SS. Boris and Gleb who in fidelity to the commands of the Gospel refused to take up arms against another claimant to the throne of Kiev and were killed by him.
The latest examples, of course, are the Royal Passion-Bearers of Russia. (Incidentally, I was immensely gratified that the Patriarchate of Moscow proclaimed the glorification of the last Imperial family with the title--I had for years been saying that last Tsar and his family were Passion-Bearers, not Martyrs as the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia proclaimed them.)