The Week in Pictures: December 6 – 12, 2021

The week between December 6 and 12 was blessed by three saints: Holy Hierarchs Nicholas and Spyridon and Holy Martyr Philothea. Please see below how they were celebrated.

Procession with the icon of St. Nicholas in Piraeus, Greece. Photo: Orthodoxia News Agency
His Grace Bishop Justin lit candles at the graves at Rohia Monastery’s Cemetery. Photo: Diocese of  Maramureș and Sătmar
Mother holding her daughter during the Divine Liturgy at “St. Paraskeva – Drumul Taberei” Church. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Young subdeacon at the patronal feast of the Theology Faculty in Cluj. Photo: Metropolis of Cluj, Maramureș and Sălaj / Darius Echim
Pilgrims pray at Curtea de Argeș Monastery, honouring St. Philothea’s relics. Photo: Archdiocese of Argeș and Muscel
The Holy Martyr Catherine was celebrated, according to the unrevised calendar, in Zaleszany, Poland. Photo: Orthodox Church of Poland
Father Nectarie is building a church in Rwamagana, Rwanda. Photo: Facebook / Father Nectarie
Suceava Cathedral in winter. Photo: Instagram / Gabi Marian
St. John the Baptist Parish reflected in water, at Botoșani, Romania. Photo: Lori Gia
Russian Protopresbyter Alexei Zlobin with his wife, Liubov. Photo: Instagram / Igor Palkin
Winter story tale at Rădăuți, in northern Romania. Photo: Cătălin Urdoi
Dawn at Dervent Monastery in the county of Constanța. Photo: Protosyncellus Sofronie Bobaru
The Jerusalem Patriarch participated in the ceremony of lighting the Christmas lights at Jaffa’a Imperial Hotel. Photo: Jerusalem Patriarchate
Child venerating the icon of the Mother of God. Photo: Hieromonk Juvenalie Vasiu
Podmalinsko Monastery in Serbia covered in snow. Photo: Serbian Patriarchate
The interior of “Christ the Saviour” Cathedral in Moscow. Photo: Russian Patriarchate
Romanian vlogger Mircea Bravo who made the Chinteni Granny famous (second on the left), visited Izbuc Monastery. Photo: Facebook / Izbuc Monastery
Seminarians from the city of Galaţi donated blood for hospitals. Photo: Archdiocese of Lower Danube
Physical loneliness, spiritual communion. Photo: Basilica.ro / Aurelian Iftimiu
Christmas Carol Concert at the “Dormition of the Mother of God” Cathedral in Romania’s northern city of Satu Mare. Photo: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
A woman venerates the icon of Saint Spyridon at the Metropolitan Cathedral in the city of Timişoara, in western Romania. Photo: Stela Plămadă
Hieroschemamonk John, Protopsaltes of Lakkoskete on Mount Athos, and Schemamonk Isaac visited Putna Monastery in northern Romania. Photo: Putna Monastery
His Grace Bishop Ignatie of Huși accompanied the “Christmas Gift” Caravan in the remote hamlets of his diocese. Photo: “Filantropia Ortodoxa Husi” Association
Patronal feast of Holy Hierarch Spyridon celebrated at the saint’s home on Corfu Island, Greece. Photo: Imcorfu.gr
His Eminence Archbishop Casian blessed the chapel of “St. Spyridon” Children Center, which is run by a parish in the city of Galați. Photo: Archdiocese of Lower Danube
Pilgrimage at St. Spyridon’s holy relics during the patronal feast of “St Spyridon the New” Cathedral in Bucharest. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu

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