The first week after the Descent of the Holy Spirit was full of spiritual events in the Orthodox world. Please see below our selection of photos from this period.
A cameraman from Trinitas TV, the television of the Romanian Patriarchate, assures the live broadcast from the Patriarchate’s Hill on the feast of the Holy Trinity. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuThe patronal feast of the “Holy Trinity” Metropolitan Cathedral in Sibiu. Photo: Ionuț VasileDivine Liturgy at the ”St George – Cloșca” Skete in Constanța county, on the feast of the Most Holy Trinity. Photo: Facebook / Leontie ProtosMembers of the Basilica New Agency attending the Divine Liturgy on the Patriarchate’s Hill on the feast of the Holy Trinity, which is the patronal feast of the Romanian Patriarchate’s Basilica Media Centre. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuProcession in honour of St John the Baptist and St George the Pilgrim on the streets of Piatra Neamț. Photo: Doxologia / Flavius PopaMetropolitan Varsanufie of Sankt-Petersburg and Ladoga took a helicopter flight to pray over the city. Photo: Petersburg MetropolisThe porch of Cernica Monastery’s St Nicholas Church. Photo: Basilica.ro / Aurelian IftimiuThe Ecumenical Patriarch together with members of the Holy Synod in the garden of the Halki Theological School. Photo: Fanarion.blogspot.comMother and child pray on the feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist at Turnu Monastery, Prahova county. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela EneA monk playing the semantron at Bucharest’s Plumbuita Monastery. Photo: Lumina Newspaper / Luigi IvanciuIn the northern part of the Polish Carpathians, the members of the Serbian Diaspora participated in events dedicated to the national Serbian “Vidovdan” feast. Photo: Orthodox Church of PolandPatriarch Daniel donated a vestment that adorned the relics of St Demetrius the New to a parish of Onești Deanery. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuGreek Archbishop Elpidophoros of America holding a child at the meeting with the priests’ families. Photo: Twitter / ElpidophorosThe church dedicated to Saint Hyacinth of Vicina, Metropolitan of Wallachia, at Dervent Monastery. Photo: Fr. Ilie PreliceanuA Greek priest driving a city scooter shows us that innocent childlike joy gets us closer to God. Photo: Instagram / Paulos PapadopoulosFairy-tale sky at the Nocrich Monastery in the county of Sibiu. Photo: Ovidiu TătarTrotușanu Monastery in Vrancea county. Photo: Radu ChirițăThe National Flag Day was celebrated on Saturday, in Bucharest’s Tricolour Square. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuA little girl participates in the event organized at Cluj on Romania’s National Flag Day. Photo: Metropolis of Cluj / Darius EchimYoung people wearing wheat wreaths at the patronal feast of the Maxineni Monastery. Photo: Facebook / Archdiocese of Lower DanubeIcon of the Holy Prince Stephen the Great in the old Russian Cathedral of San Francisco, the first church where St John Maximovich officiated on American land. Photo: Protosyncellus Sofronie BobaruBucharest’s Monastery “Hyeromartyr Metropolitan Antim the Georgian” celebrated its historic patronal feast. Photo: Lumina Newspaper / Mihnea PăduraruThe Holy Mount Athos under the starry sky. Photo: Telegram / Afonsky vestnik
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