{"id":434922,"date":"2023-07-12T20:11:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T17:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=434922"},"modified":"2023-07-12T20:11:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T17:11:49","slug":"the-week-in-pictures-july-3-9-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/the-week-in-pictures-july-3-9-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Pictures: July 3 – 9, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Camps, workshops, anniversaries, patronal feasts and concerts are some of the ingredients of Orthodox life from 3 to 9 July 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Orthodox youth camp at Catrinari P\u0103ltini\u0219 Monastery, Romania. Photo credit: Sofia P\u00eervu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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People from Chi\u0219in\u0103u receive daily food through the mobile social canteen program “Close to One’s Neighbour” of the Diaconia Social Mission of the Metropolis of Bessarabia. Photo credit: Basilica.ro \/ Raluca Ene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Patriarch Ilya of Georgia on the 45th anniversary of His Beatitude’s enthronement. Photo credit: Patriarchate of Georgia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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His Grace Sofian Bra\u0219oveanul explains to a little girl the meaning of the engolpion. Photo credit: Romulus Valentin B\u0103lu\u021b\u0103<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Explanation of the technique used to make the gobelin at a handmade workshop held at Bucharest’s “Annunciation – Belu” Church. Photo credit: Georgiana B\u0103r\u00eec\u0103<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The St\u0103nile Skete in the Ceahl\u0103u Massif, Romania, in the warm sunlight. Photo credit: Gabriel Drumea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Christening in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo credit: Facebook \/ David Sauls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dr Constantin B\u0103l\u0103ceanu-Stolnici was celebrated at the Romanian Academy on the occasion of his 100th birthday anniversary on July 6, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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His Grace Sofian of Bra\u0219ov visited the offices of the Basilica News Agency on July 6, 2023, and presented the agency’s director with an icon of St. Alexander Schmorell of Munich, painted at the Munich Romanian Orthodox Centre’s Workshop. The workshop has Venerable Theophano Basarab as its patron saint. Photo credit: Basilica.ro \/ Raluca Ene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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His Grace Ignatie with the faithful at the procession with the relics of Holy Martyr Chiriachi in Hu\u0219i, July 6, 2023. Photo credit: Diocese of Hu\u0219i<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Ecumenical Patriarch at the patronal feast of St Kyryaki Church in Kontiskali on July 7, 2023. Photo credit: Ecumenical Patriarchate \/ Nikos Papachristou<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Graduates of the Bucharest Faculty of Theology took the oath on Friday, July 7, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Putna Monastery in the first week of July 2023. Photo credit: Putna Monastery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Icon of Saint Stephen the Great on Toaca Peak of Romania’s Ceahl\u0103u Massif. Photo credit: Gabriel Drumea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Graduates of the Cluj-Napoca Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Romania, took the oath of Orthodox faith. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj \/ Darius Echim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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His Eminence Casian celebrated the Divine Liturgy with His Eminence Theodosius and His Grace Visarion at Halmyris Monastery, Tulcea County, Romania, on Saturday, July 8, 2023. Photo credit: Diocese of Tulcea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The “Saints Archangels Michael and Gabriel” Church in Ru\u0219eni, Satu Mare county, Romania. Photo credit: Diocese of Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103tmar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Believers from Ghil\u0103ve\u0219ti, Bac\u0103u county, Romania, participated in the reconsecration of their local church on Sunday, July 9, 2023. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and Bac\u0103u<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Summer in Maramure\u0219 is divided between work and church. Photo credit: Sorin Oni\u0219or<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A concert of folk religious songs in honour of the Mother of God was held at the National Cathedral Chapel in Bucharest on Sunday, July 9, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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