This year, the Archdiocese of Iași announced that the number of believers participating in Saint Parascheva’s celebrations reached a new high of 450,000. Approximately 360,000 people participated in the extended pilgrimage to the relics of…
The reporters of the national news agency Agerpres spoke with the family of florists who, for 20 years, have been coming from Bucharest with flowers to decorate the baldachin for Saint Parascheva in Iași. Ioan…
The Archdiocese of Iasi is anticipating over three hundred thousand pilgrims in attendance at a 9-day-long pilgrimage at Iasi beginning this Saturday ahead of the principal celebration of Saint Parascheva, one of Romania’s most beloved…
In a video message, His Eminence Metropolitan Teofan of Moldavia and Bukovina addresses the pilgrims heading to Iasi to venerate the relics of Saint Paraskeva the New (October 14). The pilgrimage opens on Saturday, October…
Metropolitan Laurentiu of Transylvania called Saint Parascheva “a divine gift that God sent to our country to protect us, to be our guardian and reinforcer in these difficult moments.” The Metropolitan of Transylvania addressed the…
“Lord, how poor Moldavia and the country, Iaşi and the Cathedral would have been, without the presence here of the holy relics of Saint Parascheva,” Metropolitan Teofan said on Sunday, June 13, 2021, at the…
In a video message marking the 380th anniversary of the translation of Saint Parascheva’s relics to Iasi (June 13, 1641), His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel said that Saint Parascheva is a very popular Saint in Romania,…
On June 12-13, 2021, the Archdiocese of Iaşi will hold cultural and liturgical events marking the 380th anniversary of the translation of the relics of Saint Parascheva from Constantinople to Iaşi. The holy relics were…
The life and work of Father Alexandru Octavian Balaban from St Parascheva Parish in Dăeni, county of Tulcea, unfolds under St Parascheva’s protection. The priest, whose story has been recently featured in Libertatea daily, told…
His Grace Bishop Timotei of Prahova officiated the all-night vigil in honour of Saint Parascheva the New at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest on Tuesday, October 13, 2020. Photography courtesy of Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene…