{"id":331442,"date":"2021-09-01T22:59:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T19:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=331442"},"modified":"2021-09-01T23:08:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T20:08:06","slug":"the-week-in-pictures-august-23-29-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/the-week-in-pictures-august-23-29-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Pictures: August 23-29, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please find below our selection of photos from the Orthodox world on the week with youth activities and feasts dedicated to the Mother of God and to St John the Baptist.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Archdiocese of Suceava and R\u0103d\u0103u\u021bi organized the first edition of its Youth Football Championship. Photo: Arhiepiscopiasucevei.ro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bishop Iustin of Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103tmar joined the youth in their activities at the Christian youth camp “United in Thoughts and Feelings” (Dealu Mare Monastery). Photo: Facebook \/ Diocese of Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103tmar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Greeting Metropolitan Teofan at the Little Neam\u021b Youth Camp from Neam\u021b Monastery. Photo: Facebook \/ Tab\u0103ra Nem\u021bi\u0219or<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The icon of the Dormition was carried in procession from Jersalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the Tomb of the Mother of God in the Garden of Gethsemane. Photo: Facebook \/ Jerusalem-Patriarchate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Monks from De\u010dani Serbian Monastery clean the forest surrounding their holy place. Photo: Twitter \/ @DecaniMonastery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Honouring St Mary of Diveyevo at St George-Clo\u0219ca Skete (Constan\u021ba county), which holds a part of her relics. Photo: Protos. Leontie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A woman lits candles in Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral on the feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God. Photo: Moscow Patriarchate \/ Oleg Varov<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew participated in an event aiming to restore the oldest wooden building in Europe: the former Prinkipo Greek-Orthodox orphanage in Istanbul. Photo: Ecumenical Patriarchate \/ Nikos Papachristou<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Father Grigorie of the “Holy 40 Martyrs – Gherla Memorial” Monastery, founded in the memory of those who died in the Communist prisons. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Aurelian Iftimiu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Children from Cluj’s Pata R\u00e2t neighbourhood during the Divine Liturgy officiated on the feast of St Moses the Ethiopian, protector of Roma people. Photo: Metropolis of Cluj, Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103laj<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Athonite Vatopaidi Monastery prepared koliva for the feast of St Joseph the Hesychast. Photo: Vatopaidi Monastery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Icon procession for the feast of Holy Hierarch Alexander on the streets of the Romanian city of Alexandria. Photo: Lumina Newspaper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nun from Cormaia Monastery (in the county of Bistri\u021ba-N\u0103s\u0103ud) participates in the feast of\u00a0 St. John the Baptist. Photo: Metropolis of Cluj, Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103laj<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Panorama of the Monastery of Saints George and John Jacob of Hozeva. Photo: Vu\u021ban Vasile-Liviu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A traditionally dressed man at the feast of Topolni\u021ba Monastery – The Beheading of the Holy Forerunner. Photo: Episcopiaseverinului.ro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Patriarch Porfirije of Serbia offers the Holy Communion to children at a church in Belgrade. Photo: Spc.rs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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HE Timotei of Prahova blesses a child at Bucharest’s Plumbuita Monastery. Photo: Lumina Newspaper \/ Mihnea P\u0103duraru<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Priests of the Bran-Z\u0103rne\u0219ti Deanery officiated the Divine Liturgy on the stone altar in B\u00e2ng\u0103leasa Valley (Bucegi Nature Reserve). Photo: Bogdana P\u0103un<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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