The Week in Pictures: June 1 -7, 2020

This is Orthodoxy in pictures beginning with Children’s Day until Pentecost Sunday, reflecting the joy of childhood and the great feast that marks the establishment of the Church. Here is our weekly selection of photos in the Orthodox world captured from June 1 to June 7, 2020.

Children listening to the heartbeat of a stone in the wall of the old church of the Hodoș-Bodrog Monastery. Photo: Protosyncellus Iustin Popovici
Holy Trinity Monastery in Drăgănești-Vlașca, Teleorman County. Photo: Marilena Râdelesne
Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, a friend of students during the exam season. Photo: Țapu Gina-Mădălina
The tomb of Archbishop Pimen at Sihăstria Putnei Monastery. Photo: Facebook / Putna Monastery
Hodoș-Bodrog Monastery: a child plays the semantron to announce the beginning of the Pentecost service. Photo: Ionel Bănățeanu
Church of the Holy Emperors at Vârful Dealului in Cacica, Suceava County. Photo: Filip Danilevici
Archbishop Casian officiating the Kneeling Prayers at Vespers of Pentecost during which the Holy Spirit was invoked and the walnut branches were blessed – a symbol of the tongues of fire that stood above the heads of the Holy Apostles. Photo: Lower Danube Archdiocese
Pentecost Sunday at Metropolitan Cathedral in Iași. Photo: Doxologia / Bogdan Bulgariu
Bishop Justin’s sidekick for the kneeling prayers at Vespers of Pentecost. Photo: Diocese of Maramures and Sătmar
The Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop Varlaam of Ploiești invoking the Holy Spirit on Pentecost at Cernica Monastery. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
The blessing of the linden branches at Roman, on the Sunday of the Descent of the Holy Spirit. Photo: Media up solutions
Believers venerating holy relics at Curtea de Argeș on Pentecost Sunday. Photo: Archdiocese of Argeș and Muscel / Cristian Gheorghe
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel at Cernica Monastery. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu

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