{"id":348335,"date":"2021-12-28T12:57:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T10:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=348335"},"modified":"2021-12-28T12:57:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T10:57:12","slug":"the-week-in-pictures-december-20-26-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/the-week-in-pictures-december-20-26-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Pictures: December 20 – 26, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week saw the commemoration of the heroes of the anti-Communist Revolution of December 1989, Christmas carolers and the great feast of the Lord’s Nativity. Please see below the last weekly selection of photos for the year 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Putna Monastery is always surrounded by snowdrifts at this time of the year. Photo: Putna Monastery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Christ Almighty represented at Deva Eparchial Centre. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Aurelian Iftimiu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Commemoration of the 1989 anti-communist revolution heroes, 32 years later, at the Revolution Heroes Cemetery in Bucharest. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The “Ethos” Byzantine Music Group of the Diocese of Caransebe\u0219 sang Christmas carols at the Caransebe\u0219 City Hospital, including at the Covid-19 Section, where they were joined by missionary priest Petric\u0103 Timi\u0219. Photo: Diocese of Caransebe\u0219<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The ossuary of “St. Panteleimon” Monastery on the Holy Mount Athos. Photo: Telegram \/ Afonsky vestnik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these\u201d (Luke 18:16). His Grace Iustin of Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103tmar with children at the “Holy Trinity” Cathedral in the northern-Romania city of Baia Mare. Photo: Diocese of Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103tmar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Archbishop Elpidophoros of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America embraces his mother, who came to New York to spend Christmas with her son. Photo: Twitter\/ Elpidophoros<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Archbishop Casian of Lower Danube with young people at the ASCOR Gala\u021bi Gala of the local Orthodox Christian Students Association. Photo: Archdiocese of Lower Danube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Children and priests from the city of Mioveni sang Christmas carols to announce the good tidings of the Lord’s Nativity. Photo: Archdiocese of Arge\u0219 and Muscel \/ Mihail Oprescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Patriarch Daniel of Romanian received Christmas carolers in the Hall of the Romanian Saints at the Patriarchal Residence in Bucharest. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Young men from Bistri\u021ba-N\u0103s\u0103ud county dressed in traditional costumes participating in the Divine Liturgy celebrated by Metropolitan Andrei of Cluj at the “Coroana” Church in Bistri\u021ba. Photo: Bistri\u021ba Deanery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bishop Macarie of Northern Europe holding newly-baptized Romanian little girls Ilia-Teodora and Nicola in Trondheim, Norway. Photo: Diocese of Northern Europe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Metropolitan Cathedral in Timi\u015foara prepared to meed the great feast of the Lord’s Nativity. Photo: Diana \u0218tefan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Christmas tree at the “Holy Martyr Demetrios” Church of the Izvoarele Parish in the Diocese of Tulcea. Photo: Adrian Greceanu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A family returned from abroad sang Christmas carols at the Archdiocesan Cathedral in Gala\u021bi. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Aurelian Iftimiu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The first snow fall at the Holy Hierarch Nicholas Skete in Nandru, the county of Hunedoara. Photo: Robert Nu\u021b\u0103<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Lord’s Nativity feast at the Patriarchal Cathedral. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The New Bishop of Deva and Hunedoara, His Grace Nestor, was installed at the “St. Nicholas” Diocesan Cathedral in Deva. Photo: Metropolis of Ardeal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Christ Almighty painted at Dervent Monastery’s “St. Antepas of Calapode\u0219ti” Chapel, in the county of Constan\u021ba. Photo: Protosyncellus Sofronie Bobaru<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A child delves into the mystery of photography at “Christ the Saviour” Cathedral in Moscow. Photo: Russian Patriarchate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Children eating Antidoron bread at the Archdiocesan Cathedral in Suceava. Photo: Archdiocese of Suceava and R\u0103d\u0103u\u021bi \/ Irina Usachi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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