Păs'sion-ist, n.

n. (Rom. Cath. Church.) A member of a religious order, called also Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross, founded in Italy in 1737, and approved in 1741. It was introduced into the United States in 1852. The members of the order unite the mortified life of the Trappists with the activity and zeal of the Jesuits and Lazarists.