The Week in Pictures: October 9-15, 2023

Saint Paraskeva is loved throughout Romania, as evidenced by the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who make the yearly pilgrimage to Iași, and by the multitude of churches that have her as their patron saint. We invite you to see our Week-in-Pictures photo feature for the week of October 9-15, 2023.

Beginning of autumn at Stănișoara Monastery, Romania. Photo credit: Monk Paisie Vasile
Sunset at Suceava’s Monastery of „St. John the New”, Romania. Photo credit: Facebook / Monastery of Saint John the New – Suceava
Flower arrangement on the feast of St. John the Apostle and Evangelist at a church in Poland. Photo credit: Facebook / Aleksander Wasyluk Photography
“Truly I say to you: Unless you turn and be like little children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3). Photo credit: Negru Vodă Monastery-Câmpulung Muscel / Protos. Ieronim Gheorghiță
Cat basking in the sun in the courtyard of Dervent Monastery, Romania. Photo credit: Protos. Sofronie Bobaru
A fairy-tale setting at Moldovița Monastery, Romania. Photo credit: Pr. Nicu Spînu
“The age of wisdom and the roads of faith”. A pious old man returning from the liturgy. Photo credit: Florin Preduț
In the quiet of the night at the Monastery of St. Daniil the Hermit, Romania. Photo credit: Dositei Iancu
Sacred Art students gathered under the direction of Professor Mihai Coman for this fall’s fresco session, at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Bucharest, on October 13, 2023. Photo credit: Fr. Constantin Preda
Bishop Iustin at the Monastery of Pasul Prislop, Romania. Photo credit: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
Iași city, Romania, adorned with flowers for the feast of Saint Paraskeva. Photo credit: Facebook / SC Servicii Publice Iași SA
The patronal feast of Dobrești Monastery in Western Romania, founded by Patriarch Daniel of Romania and set under the patronage of Venerable Paraskeva, celebrated on October 14, 2023. Photo credit: Ioana Gavrilescu
Saint Paraskeva was also celebrated in New York on October 14, 2023. Another vestment which covered for a while the relics of the saint is kept in this city. Photo credit: Simona Breazu
Prayer at the patronal feast of the “Venerable Paraskeva” Parish Church in the town of Manolache, Ilfov County, Romania, on October 14, 2023. Photo credit: Gabriel Drumea
An old man attends the Divine Liturgy on the patronal feast of Strâmtura Monastery, in the county of Maramureș, Romania, on October 14, 2023. Photo credit: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
The Painting of the Sihăstria Râșcăi Monastery church. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Aurelian Iftimiu
Tens of thousands of faithful attended the Divine Liturgy celebrated in open air in the Romanian city of Iași for the feast day of Saint Paraskeva, on October 14, 2023. Photo credit: Doxologia / Oana Nichifor
Moment of prayer at the “Holy Hierarch Calinic”-Titan Parish in Bucharest, Romania, during the autumn patronal feast dedicated to the Venerable Paraskeva, on October 14, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela Ene
The Sihăstria Râșcăi Monastery church, dedicated to “Saint John of Râșca and Secu” was consecrated by a synaxis of 11 hierarchs, on October 15, 2023. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuți
The patronal feast of the Cathedral in Roman, Romania, was celebrated this year on October 15, 2023. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
Patriarch Daniel of Romania blessed the faithful after the reconsecration of the iconostasis of the Vintilă Vodă Parish church in Ilfov county, Romania, on October 15, 2023. Photo credit: Ziarul Lumina / Luigi Ivanciu

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