Please find below conferences, football matches, pilgrimages and other events featured in our Week-in-Pictures feature for the week of May 29 – June 4, 2023.
The Spring Pastoral-Missionary Conferences of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Bucharest took place at the Patriarchal Palace, on May 28, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuRomanian football legends Gheorghe Hagi and Gică Popescu went on a pilgrimage to Mount Athos after Farul Constanta won the national football championship. Photo credit: Facebook / Gică PopescuAntiochian Bishop of Rio, Teodor Ghandour, visited the Monastery of St. George – Al Haref on May 30, 2023. Photo credit: Facebook / Igreja Ortodoxa Antioquina do Rio de JaneiroHis Grace Veniamin attended the consecration of a village church in Gura Galbenei, in the Republic of Moldova, on June 1, 2023. Photo credit: Facebook / Orthodox Community of St. George the Great Great Martyr Gura GalbeneiPriest Mihai Gojgar duelling with Mihai Bendeac at a charity football match – “The Childhood Trophy”. Photo credit: Facebook / “St. Demetrius Post Office” ParishThe “Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel” Romanian Orthodox Parish in Berlin organised a pilgrimage to Marienborn, where the Holy Spring of Our Lady is located and where the Divine Liturgy was celebrated on the ruins of an old Orthodox church from the 9th century. Photo credit: Facebook / “Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel” Romanian Orthodox Parish in BerlinPew singer at the Serbian monastery of Decani on the Pentecost feast, June 4, 2023. Photo credit: Twitter / Decani MonasterySummer Commemoration of the Dead at the Church of Paralia Katerini, Greece. Photo credit: Facebook / Tudor CalinGOYA Annual on the weekend of the Commemoration of the Dead. Photo credit: Orthodox Observer/ John Douglas PhotographyThis is what St. John Jacob the New Khozevite’s shoes looked like after it rained in the Khozeva Desert. Photo credit: Facebook / Elena DeparteThe consecration of a new shrine and wheat ears in the village of Săcălășeni, Maramureș county, Romania, on June 4, 2023. Photo credit: Facebook / “Holy Apostles Peter and Paul” Parish in SăcălășeniPassion has no age: first-year student at the Faculty of Theology in Alba Iulia, Sacred Art section. Photo credit: Liviu GhebertaMiniature of the “St. Dimitrios the New” Monastery – Mini Bulgaria Park (Veliko Tarnovo) Photo credit: Andrei PauSt. Demetrius Chapel in Cumpene, Vâlcea county, Romania. Photo credit: Fr. LaurențiuFragments of the relics of Great-martyr George, bearer of victory, and of the Holy Myrrh-bearer Mary Magdalene were brought to the “Annunciation – Belu” Church in Bucharest, Romania. Photo credit: Nico EnculescuBucharest’s Mărcuța Church at the beginning of summer. Photo credit: Afsar AmirabadiHis Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral on the Feast of Pentecost on June 4, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Emanuela Ene
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