{"id":490982,"date":"2024-08-07T09:39:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T06:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=490982"},"modified":"2024-08-07T09:39:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T06:39:41","slug":"the-week-in-pictures-july-29-august-4-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/the-week-in-pictures-july-29-august-4-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Pictures: July 29 – August 4, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the first week of the Dormition of the Mother of God Fast, our selection of snapshots from the Orthodox world captures original images of youth camp participants and moving moments involving clerics and the faithful.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Young participants in the Oa\u0219a International Youth Camp and monks of the Romanian monastic community which hosted it. Photo credit: Facebook \/ M\u0103n\u0103stirea Oa\u0219a<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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An elderly man kissed the wonderworking icon of the Mother God from Adam Monastery, Romania, during a procession organized by the Archdiocese of Lower Danube. Photo: Archdiocese of Lower Danube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Two crosses belonging to the newly-canonized St Sofian of Antim were taken out of the recent saint’s grave during a special Exhumation service officiated at the C\u0103ld\u0103ru\u0219ani Monastery near Bucharest, Romania, on Monday, July 29, 2024. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Raluca Ene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Young woman waiting to receive the Holy Communion during the summer camp organized by the Cluj branch of the Romanian Christian Orthodox Students Association (ASCOR). Photo: Anca-Maria Bica<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Summer evening at Curtea de Arge\u0219 Monastery, Romania. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A little girl attended the Paraclesis of the Mother of God officiated at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Baia-Mare, Romania, on Thursday, August 1, 2024. Foto credit: Diocese of Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103tmar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Elevation of the Holy Cross at the Archdiocesan Cathedral in Roman, Romania, on Thursday, August 1, 2024. Photo: Archdiocese of Roman and Bac\u0103u<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Metropolitan Arsenie of Sliven celebrated the Divine Liturgy in honour of the Mother of God at Yambol, Bulgaria, on Friday, August 2, 2024. Photo: bg-patriarshia.bg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Young delivery worker carrying The Diary of Happiness <\/em>by Monk Nicolae Steinhardt,<\/em> the story of a Jew from Romania who converted to Orthodox Christianity in a communist prison. Photo: Robert Musta\u021b\u0103<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Procession in honour of Holy Prophet Elijah, celebrated according to the unrevised calendar at an Orthodox parish in Poland. Photo: Facebook \/ Aleksander Wasyluk Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Biophysicist Virgiliu Gheorghe, doctor in Bioethics, held a conference on digital addiction in Com\u0103ne\u0219ti, Romania. Photo source: Facebook \/ Anastasoaie Simion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Newly ordained missionaries in the Diocese of Bukoba, Tanzania, on Friday, August 2, 2024. Photo: orthodoxianewsagency.gr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Orthodox Polish children throw flower petals in front of their hierarch on the feast of the Holy Prophet Elijah. Photo: Facebook \/ Aleksander Wasyluk Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vigil for the St Theodora of Thessaloniki feast at Antim Monastery in Bucharest, Romania. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Ierod. Nicolae Iftimiu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Metropolitan Andrei of Cluj, Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103laj administers to the faithful the Holy Communion at H\u0103lm\u0103s\u0103u Parish in Romania’s Bistri\u021ba-N\u0103s\u0103ud county, on Saturday, August 3, 2024. Photo: Facebook \/ Metropolis of Cluj, Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103laj<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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View of the narthex and the Holy Altar at the Lord’s Resurrection Church in Bac\u0103u, Romania. Photo: Facebook \/ Archdiocese of Roman and Bac\u0103u<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A moving moment in a Romanian hierarch’s native village: Romanian Orthodox Bishop Macarie of Northern Europe kisses his father, Vasile Dr\u0103goi, on Sunday, August 4, 2024. Photo: Diocese of Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103tmar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Patriarch Daniel of Romania visited the residents of Pas\u0103rea Monastery’s home for the elderly on Sunday, August 4, 2024. Photo: Ziarul Lumina \/ Luigi Ivanciu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bishop Visarion of Tulcea at the end of the Divine Liturgy celebrated at the Dormition of the Mother of God Church in Agiasos \u2013 Lesvos, Greece. Photo: Diocese of Tulcea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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HE Teodosie, Archbishop of Tomis, celebrated the Divine Liturgy on Sunday, August 4, 2024, at Crucea (“The Cross”) Monastery in Constan\u021ba county, Romania. St Teodora of Sihla protects the holy place. Photo: Archdiocese of Tomis \/ Archdeacon Vali V\u0103d\u0103noiu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kneeling prayer during the Divine Liturgy celebrated at the Archdiocesan Cathedral in Suceava, Romania, on the 6th Sunday after Pentecost. Photo: Archdiocese of Suceava R\u0103d\u0103u\u021bi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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HG Timotei of Prahova blessed the faithful who attended the Divine Liturgy celebrated at Bucharest’s Radu Vod\u0103 Monastery on Sunday, August 4, 2024. Photo: Facebook \/ M\u0103n\u0103stirea Radu Vod\u0103<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Child at the Divine Liturgy celebrated at the Romanian Orthodox Parish of Northampton, in the United Kingdom. Photo source: Facebook \/ Nicolae Bulat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Portrait of Patriarch Porfirije of Serbia captured during the Divine Liturgy celebrated for St Mary Magdalene according to the unrevised calendar. Photo: Facebook \/ \u041f\u0430\u0442\u0440\u0438\u0458\u0430\u0440\u0445 \u0441\u0440\u043f\u0441\u043a\u0438 \u041f\u043e\u0440\u0444\u0438\u0440\u0438\u0458\u0435<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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