{"id":303206,"date":"2020-12-24T13:15:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T11:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=303206"},"modified":"2020-12-24T13:20:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T11:20:06","slug":"the-week-in-pictures-december-14-20-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/the-week-in-pictures-december-14-20-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Pictures: December 14 – 20, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

The feast of the Lord’s Nativity is approaching fast. Carol singers have started to announce the good news in small groups and online. Please enjoy our selection pf photos taken between December 14 and 20, 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Holy Martyr Philemon, patron of the actors, was honoured at Bucharest’s Radu Vod\u0103 Monastery. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Muffin the Cat is “mastering” well a book written by Venerable Porfirios. Photo: Ioana Mante<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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ASCOR Alba Iulia started a humanitarian campaign entitled “You can be a Santa\u201d. Photo: Archdiocese of Alba Iulia \/ Paul Alin Scrobot\u0103<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“The Orient from Above”, a traditional Christmas carol concert, was shot in front of the Palace of Patriarchy from Bucharest. It was organized by the BASILICA Media Center of the Romanian Patriarchate. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Te Deum<\/em> service on the name day of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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On the feast of Venerable Daniel the Hermit, the monks from Putna Monastery read the saint’s Acathyst Hymn at the stone cell that he had carved for himself in the wilderness. Photo: Facebook \/ Putna Monastery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The feast of the Holy Hierarch Nicholas was celebrated at the Hajn\u00f3wka Cathedral in Poland. Photo: Orthodox.pl \/ Fr. Marek Litwiniuk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bishops Iustin of Maramure\u0219 and Auxiliary Bishop Timotei of S\u0103tmar received the first Christmas carol singers at the diocesan centre in the city of Baia Mare. Photo: Facebook \/ Diocese of Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103tmar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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White silence at Br\u00eenceni Monastery in the southern Romania county of Teleorman. Photo: Adrian Gabriel Dr\u0103gulin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Christmas carol singers at the church in Apahida, Cluj county. Photo: Metropolis of Cluj \/ Darius Echim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Christmas carol singers visited the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Photo: Ecumenical Patriarchate \/ Nikos Manginas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Carol singers at the Archdiocesan Cathedral in Gala\u0163i. Photo: Facebook \/ Archdiocese of Lower Danube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Morning liturgy at “St John the Theologian” Metropolitan Chapel in Timi\u0219oara. Photo: Daniel Anitas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The iconostasis of the main church of Negru Vod\u0103 Monastery in C\u00e2mpulung Muscel, Arge\u0219 county. Photo: Protosyncellus Ieronim Gheorghi\u021b\u0103<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania received at the Patriarchal Residence, in the Hall of the Romanian Saints, two small groups of Christmas carol singers made of former members of the Romanian Orthodox Students Association (ASCOR). Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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