Cultural

16th century St. Nicholas icon discovered during excavations at Moldovan fortress

An ancient icon was recently unearthed during archaeological excavations at a Moldovan fort originally built by St. Stephen the Great in the 15th century. A team of students from the History and Geography Department of the Ion Creangă Pedagogical State University in Chişinău discovered a 16th-century bronze icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker while searching…

Jul 19, 2019Mihail Mere-Albe

Romanian postage stamp day seals of the Romanian rulers

On the occasion of the “Romanian postage stamp day” on July 15, 2019 Romfilatelia introduces into circulation the postage stamps issue with the theme “Seals of the Romanian rulers”. The four stamps illustrate images of the wax seals that belonged to the Rulers Alexander the Good (1400-1432), Stephen the Great 1457-1504), Vasile Lupu (1634-1653) and Petru Rares (1527-1538; 1541-1546). The…

Jul 16, 2019Gheorghe Anghel

UNESCO Adds Russia’s Ancient Pskov Churches to World Heritage List

Seventeen unique buildings in the northwest Russian city of Pskov were among the latest cultural gems to join UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites.  Pskov is one of Russia’s oldest cities, first mentioned in ancient annals of the 9th century. In the Middle Ages, it was the bustling, wealthy capital of the Pskov Republic, acting…

Jul 10, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

NBR: Numismatic issues dedicated to the Completion of the Great Union – Alexandru Marghiloman

The National Bank of Romania has put into circulation, for numismatic purposes, a set of three coins made of gold, silver and copper-plated tombac dedicated to the Completion of the Great Union – Alexandru Marghiloman. The coins have the following technical characteristics: Obverse of the gold coin: the image of the Country Council building in Chișinău, where…

Jul 5, 2019Gheorghe Anghel

Romfilatelia: The thematic issue The Holy Easter 2019

The thematic issue The Holy Easter 2019 is composed of two postage stamps with a face value of Lei 1.50 each and a perforated souvenir sheet whose stamp has a face value of Lei 28.50, Romfilatelia reports. The postage stamps reproduce the images that are found in the Miscellany works of church chants, having as authors Mitrofan, the Patriarch of Constantinople…

Apr 9, 2019Iulian Dumitraşcu

500 Bible editions go on display in Timisoara

During the month of April, people in Timisoara have the opportunity to glimpse a collection of 500 Bibles in multiple languages and dimensions. The exhibition titled The Museum of the Bible was opened on Tuesday, April 2, at the Theresian Bastion in Timisoara in the presence of His Eminence Metropolitan Ioan of Banat. The 500…

Apr 4, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

France’s Louvre to Host First Romanian Art Exhibit

A collection of Romanian Byzantine embroidery dating from the 15th to the 17th Century will be exhibited for the first time ever at the Louvre Museum in Paris from April 17. The Louvre Museum in Paris will host a Romanian art exhibition that brings together 27 pieces of Byzantine embroidery and some religious tapestries from…

Apr 3, 2019Iulian Dumitraşcu

Tronos Byzantine Choir to perform at European Parliament in April

The Tronos Byzantine Choir of the Romanian Patriarchate will perform at the European Parliament on April 11 as part of a three-day series of cultural events organized in the context of Romania’s Presidency of the EU Council. ExpoRomania Bruxelles will take place on April 10-12, 2019, and will include a display of paintings by Horia…

Mar 22, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

Scientific communication session marking 160th anniversary of Romanian Principalities’ Union held in Bucharest

The Romanian Academy and the Romanian Patriarchate organized on Thursday, January 24, 2019, a scientific communication session at the Patriarchal Palace in Bucharest marking the 160th anniversary of the Union of the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. The event was chaired by the President of the Romanian Academy Ioan Aurel Pop and attended by the…

Jan 28, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

New Exhibition in honour of Russia’s Last Tsar to open at Romanian Academy Library

The Library of the Romanian Academy will host a new exhibition ‘The Last Romanov Tsar’ exploring unique moments from the life and death of Tsar Nicholas II and his family. The exhibition is organized by Russia’s Embassy to Romania, Sretensky Monastery in Moscow, and St Nicholas – Tabacu Church in Bucharest, the spiritual home of…

Jan 17, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

Oxford University: Conference on creativity and prayer in 20th Century Russian Orthodoxy

„Unfading Light. Creativity and Prayer in 20th Century Russian Orthodoxy” is the title of a conference organized by Oxford University on March 7-8, 2019. The conference aims to explore the divergent progressions of thought form late 19th century Russian ‘traditionalism’ towards a (re)discovery of the universal dimension of the Christianity of the Fathers in the…

Jan 12, 2019Gheorghe Anghel