Today, passion is the fiery drive we are all urged to find, follow, and put on our resumes. But the word began in ancient Rome as a term for helpless suffering, passing through medieval martyrdom and centuries of spiritual affliction before it ever warmed into romance. Here is how an agonizing ordeal slowly transformed into our highest secular joy.
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