{"id":438918,"date":"2023-08-15T17:55:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T14:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=438918"},"modified":"2023-08-15T17:55:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T14:55:27","slug":"the-week-in-pictures-august-7-13-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/the-week-in-pictures-august-7-13-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Pictures: August 7 – 13, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Believe it or not, you’ve been watching our weekly retrospectives in pictures for 270 weeks. Here is what photos we’re bringing to you in our new selection of Orthodox photos from August 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Father Marius Barascu, who died in a road accident while returning from the Sihla Monastery’s patronal feast four years ago, was painted at the Romanian monastery’s entrance. Photo credit: Iustina L\u0103c\u0103tu\u0219u<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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St. Pafnutie the Church Painter was celebrated at the Robaia-Arge\u0219 Monastery, Romania, where he was tonsured a monk, on August 7, 2023. Photo credit: George Cristian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Metropolitan Nektarios of Kition (Orthodox Church of Cyprus) visited the museum of Antim Monastery in Bucharest, Romania, on August 8, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The first series of students participating in the Spiritual Program at Vatopaidi Monastery ended last week. Photo credit: Stan Mihail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The church of Bucharest’s Antim Monastery, on August 8, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro \/ Aurelian Iftimiu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“No one who comes to you goes out ashamed, Virgin Mother of God”. The service of the Virgin Mary at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Sibiu on 10 August 1023. Photo credit: Monk Paisie Vasile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The 20th commemoration of Father Constantin Galeriu’s reposing into the Lord at Bucharest’s St Sylvester Church on August 10, 2023. Photo credit: Mariana Stanca<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Ecumenical Patriarch was welcomed with flowers at the Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God in Nihori, Italy, on August 10, 2023. Photo credit: Ecumenical Patriarchate \/ Nikos Papachristou<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Prayer at Nicula Monastery, Romania, in the days leading up to the patronal feast of the monastic settlement. Photo credit: Anca-Maria Bica<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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His Grace Sofian of Bra\u0219ov offers the Holy Communion to a child. Photo credit: Romulus Valentin Baluta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Auxiliary Hierarch Timotei of Summer S\u0103tmar joined the children of the Dumbr\u0103vi\u021ba Orthodox Parish Summer Camp in the county of Maramure\u0219, Romania, on August 11, 2023. Photo credit: Diocese of Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103tmar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Fresco on the porch of the “Holy Apostles Peter and Paul” Church in Bucharest, a historical monument. Photo credit: Ana Avram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mosaic icons in the new church of the Dervent Monastery, Constan\u021ba county, Romania.Photo credit: Protosyncellus Sofronie Bobaru<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The “Holiday on the Church Porch” Summer Camp for children and young people in Rediu, Gala\u021bi county, Romania. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Lower Danube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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R\u00e2\u0219ca Monastery in the Apuseni Mountains, Romania. Photo credit: Facebook \/ R\u0103zvan Bucuroiu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Around 4000 young people attended the opening of the feast of Holy Hierarch Niphon, Patriarch of Constantinople and Metropolitan of Wallachia, in T\u00e2rgovi\u0219te, Romania, on August 10, 2023.Photo credit: Archdiocese of T\u00e2rgovi\u0219te<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A monk’s cell. Photo credit: Dositei Iancu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tonsure into monasticism at the “Holy Three Hierarchs” Monastery in Ia\u0219i, Romania, on August 11, 2023. Photo credit: Doxologia \/ Fr. Silviu Cluci<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The painting of the church in \u021aentea, Bistri\u021ba-N\u0103s\u0103ud county, Romania. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj \/ Darius Echim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Students participate in the Divine Liturgy celebrated at the “Mother of God” Monastery Saidnaya, Syria, on August 11, 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The first Divine Liturgy celebrated on the plot of land where the future church of Bielsko-Bia\u0142a, Poland, will be built. Photo credit: Orthodox Church of Poland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Probota Monastery, foundation and necropolis of Prince Petru Rare\u0219, dates back to 1530. Photo credit: Facebook \/ Paul P\u0103tr\u0103\u021banu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A grandmother takes her granddaughter to church in Berchie\u0219u, Cluj county, Romania. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj \/ Ionu\u021b Chifa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Archbishop Ioachim of Roman and Bac\u0103u among the faithful of the Precista Parish, in the city of Bac\u0103u, Romania, where a copy of St John Damascene’s icon of the Mother of God (Trihirussa) was brought, on August 13, 2023. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and Bac\u0103u<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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