{"id":444249,"date":"2023-09-26T13:27:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T10:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=444249"},"modified":"2023-09-26T13:27:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T10:27:04","slug":"spain-relic-of-st-thecla-offered-to-romanian-orthodox-community-in-sabadell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/spain-relic-of-st-thecla-offered-to-romanian-orthodox-community-in-sabadell\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain: Relic of St Thecla offered to Romanian Orthodox community in Sabadell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tarragona, Mons. Juan Planellas offered the Romanian Orthodox Bishop of Spain and Portugal a fragment of the relics of the Holy Protomartyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles Thecla, protector of the city of Tarragona. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The relic will be kept at the Sabadell Romanian Orthodox Parish in Spain, which is placed under the patronage of the first female martyr.<\/p>\n<p>The relic was offered last Saturday when Bishop Timotei of Spain and Portugal attended the mass <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arquebisbattarragona.cat\/es\/2023\/09\/25\/tarragona-expressa-multitudinariament-la-devocio-a-la-seva-patrona-santa-tecla\/\">officiated<\/a> by Mons. Juan Planellas at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Tarragona.<\/p>\n<p>The Romanian hierarch presented Monsignor Juan with a Byzantine icon of the Mother of God as a token of appreciation.<\/p>\n<p>The event was also attended by Father Vasile B\u0103lt\u0103re\u021bu, dean of Catalunya II and rector of the Romanian community in Tarragona.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_444180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-444180\" style=\"width: 736px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/fragment-din-moastele-sf-tecla-daruite-comunitatii-romanesti-din-tarragona-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-444180 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/fragment-din-moastele-sf-tecla-daruite-comunitatii-romanesti-din-tarragona-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"736\" height=\"981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/fragment-din-moastele-sf-tecla-daruite-comunitatii-romanesti-din-tarragona-4.jpg 736w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/fragment-din-moastele-sf-tecla-daruite-comunitatii-romanesti-din-tarragona-4-668x890.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-444180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A particle of the relics of Saint Thecla was offered to the Romanian Orthodox community in Sabadell, Spain, Sept. 23, 2023. Photo: Diocese of Spain and Portugal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The exchange of gifts between the Romanian and Spanish hierarchs strengthened the collaboration between the two religious communities, the representatives of the Diocese of Spain and Portugal <a href=\"https:\/\/obispadoortodoxo.es\/index.php\/arhiva\/evenimente-2023\/266-septembrie-2023\/2958-ps-timotei-prezent-la-catedrala-din-tarragona\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The relics of Saint Thecla are kept at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Tarragona, Spain, where they were brought in 1341. To celebrate this event, the city of Tarragona holds a festival dedicated to the saint every September.<\/p>\n<p>Photography courtesy of the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Spain and Portugal<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/basilicanews\">@BasilicaNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tarragona, Mons. Juan Planellas offered the Romanian Orthodox Bishop of Spain and Portugal a fragment of the relics of the Holy Protomartyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles Thecla, protector of the city of Tarragona. The relic will be kept at the Sabadell Romanian Orthodox Parish in Spain, which is placed under the patronage&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":444183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18771],"tags":[31163,12054,4794,25586,31162,10366],"class_list":["post-444249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diaspora-en","category-spirituality-en","tag-catholic-church","tag-holy-relics","tag-romanian-diaspora","tag-romanians-in-spain","tag-saint-thecla","tag-stiri-ortodoxe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}