The Week in Pictures: November 4 – 10, 2024

A glorious end of fall, moments of prayer and children’s joyful faces are among the subjects captured last week by professional and amateur photographers in the Orthodox world.

A young pilgrim at the Romanian monastery of the Elevation of the Holy Cross and St. Ephraim the New in Mono, Ontario, Canada, on November 4, 2024. Photo credit: Holy Cross Orthodox Monastery – Mono 
On the first Sunday in November, the people on Corfu Island honour the miracle performed by St. Spyridon in 1673, when he saved the island from the plague. Photo credit: imcorfu.gr
Greece: Procession with the relics of St. George of Drama on November 4, 2024, Sipsa Monastery, founded by the saint, where he was buried. Photo credit: imdramas.gr
A clear fall night at Dervent Monastery in Constanta County, Romania. Photo credit: Protos. Sofronie Bobaru
The canopy of the Radu Voda Monastery where the relics of St. Nektarios and St. Ephraim the New were laid to be honoured by the faithful between November 7-10, 2024, when the holy place celebrated its patronal feast. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene
Archbishop Ioachim of Roman and Bacău prayed at the icon of the Mother of God in Roman’s White Church, Romania, on November 7, 2024. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
A 3-year-old “volunteer photographer” at the feast of St. Nektarios. Photo credit: Irina Slobozeanu
Autumn at the Sihăstria Putnei Monastery in Romania. Photo credit: Daniela Mironescu
A unique perspective on the painting of the “Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel” Church in the Dâmbul Rotund neighbourhood of the Romanian city of Cluj. Photo credit: Cluj Metropolis / Darius Echim
Vigil in honour of the Mother of God and St. Nektarios at the Sihăstria Putnei Monastery, Romania, on Friday, November 8, 2024. Photo credit: Sabin Simota
A child at the patronal feast of the “Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel” Church in the Bulgarian city of Gotse Delchev on November 8, 2024. Photo credit: Facebook / Българска православна църква – Българска патриаршия
Orthodox Church dedicated to Holy Great Martyr George and the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel in Bârsănești, Bacău county, Romania, on the 50th anniversary of its consecration, November 8, 2024. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
Bishop Iustin of Maramureș and Sătmar blessed a baby at the patronal feast of the “Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel” Cathedral in Sighetu Marmației, Romania, on Friday, November 8, 2024. Photo credit: Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar / Archd. Vasile Pop
The fathers of the Serbian monastery in Dečani, Kosovo, celebrated St. Demetrios the Myrrh-gusher, patron saint of one of the chapels of the monastic settlement, on Friday, November 8, 2024. Photo credit: X / Dečani Monastery
Abbot Ephraim of the Athonite Vatopaidi Monastery after the Divine Liturgy celebrated on November 8 at Agapia Monastery, one of the stops during a pilgrimage in the Archdiocese of Iași, Romania. Photo credit: Doxologia / Silviu Cluci
Procession around the Romanian Orthodox Diocesan Cathedral in Vršac, Serbia, on the fall patronal feast dedicated to St. Nektarios, on November 9, 2024. Serbia hosts a large historic community of Romanians. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Painted porch vault at the Church of Holy Three Hierarchs in Filipeștii de Pădure, Romania, painted by Saint Pafnutie the Painter, photographed on November 9, 2024. Photo credit: Lavinia Stoica
A child kisses the head of Holy Hierarch Nektarios at his feast on the Greek island of Aegina, on Saturday, November 9, 2024. Photo Credit: Facebook / Γραφείο Τύπου- Ιεράς Μητροπόλεως Ύδρας, Σπετσών & Αιγίνης
His Grace Damaschin of Dorna celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Sihăstria Putnei Monastery, Romania, for the feast of holy Hierarch Nektarios on Saturday, November 9, 2024. Photo credit: Sihăstria Putnei Monastery
A monk at the Turnu Monastery in Prahova county, Romania, on November 9, 2024. Photo credit: Lavinia Stoica
Young woman dressed in folk costume at the patronal feast day of the Romanian Orthodox Cathedral in Vršac, Serbia, on Saturday, November 9, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu

The church of Aninoasa Monastery in Argeș County, Romania, photographed on Sunday, November 10, 2024. Photo credit: Paisie Vasile

Patriarch Porfirije of Serbia among the faithful at the St. Sava Cathedral in Belgrade’s Vračar neighbourhood, Serbia. Photo credit: Facebook / Патријарх сррпски Порфирије
Moment of prayer during an Orthodox liturgy celebrated somewhere in a Romanian Orthodox community on Sunday, November 10, 2024. Photo credit: Dan Sara
A little girl lights candles at the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, November 10, 2024. Photo credit: Facebook / Antioch Patriarchate
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I celebrates the Divine Liturgy in the “St. Demetrios” Church in Prinkipos, Turkey, on Sunday, November 10, 2024. Photo credit: Nikos Papachristou
Child receiving Holy Communion in the village church of Nicolinț, Romania, on Sunday, November 10, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Parishioners from Rebra, Romania, attended the Divine Liturgy and the church re-consecration service on Sunday, November 10. Photo credit: Cluj Metropolis / Darius Echim

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