Last week’s themes were church consecrations, processions and commemorations of the heroes. Please find below our Week-in-Pictures photo selection for June 10-16, 2024.
The chapel of the “C.I. Parhon” Institute of Endocrinology in Bucharest celebrated its patron saint on the feast day dedicated to the Holy Hierarch Luke of Crimea, June 11, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela EneProcession with Holy Hierarch Luke of Crimea’s icon and relics in Piraeus, Greece, on June 12, 2024. Photo credit: Orthodoxia News AgencyA rainbow seen from Dervent Monastery, Romania. Photo credit: Protos. Sofronie BobaruThe feast of the Hodegetria Icon of the Mother of God in Bielsko, Poland, on 12 June 2024. Photo credit: Facebook / Aleksander Wasyluk PhotographyThe relics of Saints Silas, Paisius and Nathan were brought from the Sihăstria Putnei Monastery in Romania to the Diocesan Romanian Orthodox Cathedral in Varshets, Serbia, for the patronal feast of the holy place, on the eve of the Ascension of the Lord, June 12, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuHeroes’ commemoration in Timișoara, Romania, on June 13, 2024. Photo credit: Dan SaraProcession on the feast day of the Diocesan Romanian Orthodox Cathedral in Varshets, Serbia, on 13 June 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuGolia Monastery in Iași, Romania. Photo credit: Delia BurtanThe feast of the Ascension of the Lord celebrated in Belgrade on June 13, 2024. Photo credit: Serbian PatriarchateMetropolitan Teofan of Moldavia and Bukovina inaugurated on Thursday, June 13, 2024, at Brusturi Monastery, a museum dedicated to the Romanian heroes of World War II. Photo: Basilica.ro / Ierod. Nicolae IftimiuHeroes’ Day in Negoiești, Romania, celebrated on June 13, 2024. Photo credit: Negoiești ParishRomanian heroes were remembered at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Bucharest’s Carol I Park, on June 13, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela EneMilitary and religious ceremony held at the 90th “Aviator Commander Gheorghe Bănciulescu” Air Transport Base in Otopeni, near Bucharest, on the feast of the Ascension of the Lord, which is Heroes’ Day in Romania, on June 13, 2024. Photo credit: Facebook / Baza 90 Transport Aerian Otopeni Comandor aviator Gheorghe Bănciulescu65 young people walked from Putna Monastery to Sucevița Monastery, on the Via Transilvanica trail, and restored the signs along it. Photo credit: Instagram / atos.suceavaHis Grace Benedict of Bistrița climbed to the Heroes’ Monument on Grui Peak in the Călimani Mountains to pay homage to the sixty Romanian soldiers who gave their life there during the First World War. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj / Ionuț ChifaMonument of the heroes at Sitaru, near Bucharest, where a Commemoration service was held on Heoroes’ Day, June 13, 2024. Photo credit: Fr. Vlăduț-Florin MacheCommemoration of the heroes on the 2206-meter high Bucegi Plateau on June 13, 2024. Photo credit: Facebook / Schitul Sfânta Ana SinaiaStudents of the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” Police Academy in Bucharest, Romania, donated blood as part of the “Donate blood, save a life” campaign of the Romanian Patriarchate, on June 14, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela EneHis Grace Timotei of Prahova officiated a commemoration service for Mihai Eminescu, Romania’s national poet, on Saturday, June 15, at his grave in Bucharet’s Bellu Cemetery. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca EneLittle girl at the Church of the Nativity of the Lord in Ploiești, Romania, wearing a T-shirt with the monogram of our Saviour Jesus Christ on June 16, 2024. Photo credit: Marian DanielLavender harvest at Pantocrator Monastery, Romania, on June 15, 2024. Photo credit: Pantocrator MonasteryCalling the faithful to Mass with the semantron at Comana Monastery, in Romania, on June 16, 2024. Photo credit: Comana Monastery / Dragoș GrigoreLaying the foundation stone for a church in the village of Colonie Pleașa, Prahova county, Romania, where there has never been a place of worship before, on June 16, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela EneProcession with the Vimatarissa Icon of the Mother of God at Vatopaidi Monastery in the Holy Mount Athos on June 16, 2024. Photo credit: George Cristian SlămnoiuHis Grace Timotei of Pravoha consecrated the new church of the Chițorani Parish in Prahova County, Romania, on June 16, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela EneNearly 100 children participated in the “Little Christian Cyclist” contest organized by the Orthodox Youth Association of the Orthodox Diocesan Cathedral in Baia Mare, Romania, on June 16, 2024. Photo credit: Diocese of Maramureș and SătmarPatriarch Daniel of Romania blesses the faithful at Zlătari Church in Bucharest on June 16, 2024. Photo credit: Ziarul Lumina
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