PASSION (

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• POST

post-classical

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• LAT

Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)  , a term which is used in two main senses: (I) the suffering of pain, and (2) feeling or emotion . The first is chiefly used of the sufferings of Jesus Christ, extending from the time of the agony in the garden until his death on the cross . In this sense passio was used by the early Christian writers, and the term is also applied to the sufferings and deeds of saints and martyrs, synonymously with aria or gesta, a book containing such being known as a " passional " (liber passionalis) or `' passionary " (passionarius) . The order of Passionist Fathers, the full title of which is the " Congregation of the Discaiced Clerks of the Most Holy Cross and Passion of cur Lord Jesus Christ," was founded by St Paul of the Cross (Paolo della Croce, 1694–1775; canonized 1867) in 1720, but full sanction was not obtained for the order till 1737, when the first monastery was established at Monte Argentario, Orbetello . The secondary sense of " passion " is due to the late use of passio to translate the Greek philosophijal term wb.Oor, the classical Latin equivalent being afecius . The modern use generally restricts the term to strong and uncontrolled emotion .