The Week in Pictures: October 14 – 20, 2019

This week’s selection of photos brings you small but significant gestures that draw people closer to one another.

Young pilgrims venerating the holy relics of Saint Paraskeva the New in Iaşi. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Children attending the Divine Liturgy on the feast of the Protection of the Theotokos at the Intercession Monastery in Moscow. Photo: Moscow Patriarchate / Oleg Varov
Metropolitan Ignatios of Demetriada presenting the vice admiral Theodoros Kliaris with an icon of the Mother of God and all the saints of Demetriada, on his appointment as Chief of Coast Guard. Photo: Orthodoxia News Agency
Restorer working at the roof of a traditional house at the Village Museum in Bucharest. Photo: Facebook / “Dimitrie Gusti” National Village Museum
Greek Archbishop Elpidophoros of America visiting the areas damaged by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas. Photo: GOARCH
Bishop Justin of Maramures kisses the hand of a child following Divine Liturgy. Photo: Facebook / Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
Archbishop Casian of Lower Danube comforted and offered prayers for the sick persons at the Hospital for Recovery and Chronic Diseases in Braila, Romania. Photo: Facebook / Archdiocese of Lower Danube 
Young people dressed in Romanian folk costumes attended the first Divine Liturgy celebrated at the new church of Dobric Monastery. Photo: Cluj Metropolis / Darius Echim
A house built by the Metropolis of Bessarabia together with dozens of volunteers for a disadvantaged family depicts the representation of the Theotokos on the map of Greater Romania. Photo: Infoprut
Archbishop Leo of Finland blown by the wind in front of the Uspenski Cathedral in Helsinki. Photo: Vladimir Sokratilin

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