The Week in Pictures: March 4 – 10, 2024

The historic pilgrimage with the relics of St. Demetrius the New, the feast of the Forty Martyrs of Sebastia and other events in the Orthodox world can be seen in our Week-in-Pictures photo feature for March 4-10, 2024.

The relics of St. Demetrius the New made a short stop at the “Vasile Lascăr” School of Police Officers in Câmpina, Romania, on March 4, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica / Raluca Emanuela Ene
Sihastria Putnei Monastery in the first week of spring, on March 4, 2024. Photo credit: Monk Paisie Vasile
Patriarch Porphirije at the Karaburma Student Hostel in Belgrade, March 5, 2024. Photo credit: Serbian Patriarchate
A child touches the reliquary on the second day of the historic pilgrimage with St. Demetrius the New’s relics, March 5, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Young people from the “Holy Apostles Peter and Paul” Parish in Ploiești came out to meet the relics of the venerable saint, on March 5, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
On the third day of the historical pilgrimage, March 6, 2024, St. Demetrius the New’s relics were taken through the Ploiești South Deanery. Photo credit: Basilica / Raluca Emanuela Ene
Saint Demetrius the New was joyfully welcomed by the faithful of Ploiești. Photo credit: Basilica / Raluca Emanuela Ene
Sunrise at St. Athanasius the Athonite’s Spring on Mount Athos. Photo credit: Paul Tomi
Father Stavros Kofinas during an interview on health and healing on March 7, 2024. Photo credit: X / World Council of Churches
On March 8, members of the ATOS youth association offered handmade spring tokens named mărțișoare and snowdrops to the mothers from the Maternity Ward of the “St. John the New” Emergency County Hospital in Suceava, Romania. Photo credit: Nicoleta Pînzari
On International Women’s Day, young people prayed with their mothers and grandmothers at the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Alba Iulia, Romania. Photo credit: Orthodox Archdiocese of Alba Iulia
A procession was held at Bucharest’s Antim Monastery with fragments of the relics of the 40 Martyrs of Sebastia on March 8, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Censers at Antim Monastery, on March 9, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Hierod. Nicolae Iftimiu
His Grace Veniamin received a group of pilgrims from the village of Toceni who travelled see to several monasteries and churches in the Republic of Moldova, on March 9, 2024. Photo credit: Diocese of Southern Bessarabia
A little girl waits to receive the Holy Communion at Bucharest’s Antim Monastery on March 9, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Emanuela Ene
On March 9, 2024, the Metropolitan of Cluj officiated a memorial service in the cemetery of the political prisoners from the city of Gherla, Romania. The hierarch commemorated those who sacrificed their lives during communism by confessing the Orthodox faith in the communist prisons. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj
A memorial service for the political prisoners from the communist prisons (1944-1989) was held at the Romanian Orthodox Monastery of the Ascension of the Holy Cross and St. Ephraim the New in Mono, Canada. Photo credit: Mono Monastery
His Grace Paisie of Sinaia celebrated the Divine Liturgy at Bucharest’s Antim Monastery on the feast of the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste on March 9, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Emanuela Ene
Father Vasile Gavrilă visited the “Fort 13 Jilava” former communist prison with students from the “Holy Three Hierarchs” Theoretical High School in Bucharest. Photo credit: “Holy Three Hierarchs” High School
Church of “St. Nicholas Vlădica” in Bucharest at sunset on March 9, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Hierod
Dr. Leon Dănăilă, a well-known neurosurgeon and member of the Romanian Academy, visited Hodoș-Bodrog Monastery in Arad, Romania, where he attended the Divine Liturgy on March 10, 2024. Photo credit: Facebook / Fr. Iustin Popovici
His Grace Iustin with two children at the “Prophet Elijah of Thisba” Orthodox Parish in Baia Mare, Romania, on March 10, 2024. Photo credit: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
His Eminence Andrei, Metropolitan of Cluj, in the midst of the faithful of Cuzdrioara, Cluj county, Romania, on March 10, 2024. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj / Darius Echim
A nun from Zamfira Monastery, Romania, with the icon of St Demetrius the New on March 10, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Emanuela Ene

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