The Week in Pictures: May 13 – 19, 2024

Sunsets, feasts and spiritual retreats are just a few topics illustrated in photos taken from 13 to 19 May 2024 and included in our Week-in-Pictures photo feature.

A photo of the Finnish Metropolitan Elia on a pilgrimage in North Macedonia. Photo credit: Facebook / Metropoliitta Elia
Monastery of Saint Stephen in Meteora, Greece. Photo credit: Facebook / Agenția Pelerinul Creștin
Divine Liturgy celebrated with hierarchs at the Archdiocesan Cathedral in Roman, Romania, during the “Bishop Melchisedec Days”, on May 16, 2024. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
Koliva with the faces of the Venerable Saints Silas, Paisius and Nathan at the Sihăstria Putnei Monastery on May 16, 2024. Photo credit: Facebook / Irina Simitopol
A child with the portrait of Elder Sofian Boghiu at his memorial house in the Republic of Moldova’s Cuconeștii Vechi Cultural-Natural Reserve. Photo credit: Facebook / Cuconeștii Vechi
The vestment of St. Demetrius the New, given to the Orthodox Romanian Diocese of Canada by Patriarch Daniel of Romania, was brought on a pilgrimage to the patronal feast of the Romanian Orthodox Monastery in Mono, Canada. Photo credit: Holy Cross Orthodox Monastery
A quiet afternoon at the Mihai-Vodă Monastery in Turda, Romania, on May 16, 2024. Photo credit: Laura Drăghiciu
The feast of Saints Silas, Paisius and Nathan at the Sihăstria Putnei Monastery, Romania. Photo credit: Sihăstria Putnei Monastery
Prayer at the tombs of Fathers Dumitru Stăniloae and Andrei Scrima in the cemetery of Cernica Monastery near Bucharest, Romania, on May 16, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela Ene
The relics of St. John the Russian and St. Luke of Crimea were brought to the Pantocrator Monastery in southern Romania on May 17, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Image from the ossuary of Dervent Monastery, Romania. The remains belong to political prisoners who died in the forced labour camp set up by the communist regime in Periprava, the Danube Delta. Photo credit: Protos. Sofronie Bobaru
Night of the Museums at the Museum of the Metropolis of Cluj, on May 18, 2024. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj
Rainbow over Putna Monastery, Romania, on May 19, 2024. Photo credit: Putna Monastery
View from Movila lui Burcel Monastery in the county of Vaslui, Romania. Photo credit: Facebook / Mănăstirea Movila lui Burcel
His Grace Justin among the children participating in the patronal feast of the Ieud Monastery in Maramureș, northern Romania, on May 19, 2024. Photo credit: Diocese of Marmureș and Sătmar
His Eminence Calinic of Argeș and Muscel made a short stop at Agapia Monastery, where he presented his book, “The Joy of Living”. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Argeș and Muscel / Cristian Gheorghe
The church in the village of Chiticeni, Bacău county, Romania, was reconsecrated on May 19, 2024. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
Sunset over Putna Monastery, Romania, on May 19, 2024. Photo credit: Sorin Onișor
Thousands of pilgrims prayed to St. John the Russian and St. Luke of Crimea, saints whose relics were brought to the Pantocrator Monastery in southern Romania, for the patronal feast of the holy place, on May 19, 2024. Photo credit: IMBNK / Kosmas Karagiannis

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