{"id":497710,"date":"2024-10-01T13:21:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T10:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=497710"},"modified":"2024-10-01T13:21:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T10:21:45","slug":"the-week-in-pictures-september-23-29-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/the-week-in-pictures-september-23-29-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Pictures: September 23\u201329, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Images from the last week of September capture moments in the lives of Romanian Orthodox Christians from the diaspora, portraits of patriarchs of the Orthodox Churches and a spectacular sunrise in Dobrudja.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Icon of St. Silouan of Mt. Athos, honoured at the Romanian Orthodox parish in Luton, the United Kingdom, on Tuesday, September 24, 2024. Photo credit: Facebook \/ Luton Orthodox Church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I visited a museum near Lake Doiran on the Greek-Macedonian border, also home to a Wetland of International Importance, on Tuesday, September 24, 2024. Photo credit: Nikos Papachristou<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Artos in honour of St. Silouan of Mt. Athos, on the saint\u2019s feast day, September 24, 2024, at the Cornu Monastery, Romania. Photo credit: Basilica.ro \/ Raluca Ene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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After removing the scaffolding, the iconographic plan in the southern apse of Romania\u2019s National Cathedral was photographed on Thursday, September 26, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A believer reads the Akathist of Holy Prince Neagoe Basarab at Bucharest\u2019s \u201cSt. Sylvester\u201d Church on his feast day, Thursday, September 26, 2024. Photo credit: Facebook \/ Sf\u00e2ntul Silvestru Church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sunset at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest on Thursday, September 26, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro \/ Hierod. Nicolae Iftimiu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem in front of the Holy Sepulchre of the Lord on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, celebrated according to the unrevised calendar, on Friday, September 27, 2024. Photo credit: Facebook \/ Jerusalem Patriarchate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A pigeon drinks water from a fountain in the courtyard of Antim Monastery in Bucharest, Romania, on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A priest’s family at the screening in Kyshnev, Moldova, of the documentary film made by Trinitas TV about Holy Priest-Martyr Alexandru (Baltaga) of Bessarabia, Chisinau, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. The priest has been recently canonized by the Romanian Orthodox Church, along 15 more elders and confessors who lived under the communist regime. Trinitas TV is the TV station of the Romanian Patriarchate. Photo: Facebook \/ Ilie Cucu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sunrise was captured at the Orthodox monastery in the town of 23 August, Constanta county, Romania. The holy place is dedicated to the feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God and to St. Bretanion, bishop of Tomis. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Tomis \/ Archdeac. Valentin V\u0103d\u0103noiu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Father Petre Busuioc during renovation works at the Parish of St. Stephen the Great and St. Nectarios in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, on Friday, September 27, 2024. Photo credit: Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Canada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"\"Faithful of the \u201cHoly Emperors Constantine and Helen\u201d Romanian Orthodox Parish in Bristol, UK, visited the tomb of St. Sophrony at Essex Monastery on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. Photo credit: Marius Chiri\u021b\u0103<\/p>\n

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Prosphora with the image of the Holy Hierarch Nicholas. Photo credit: Basilica.ro \/ Hierod. Nicolae Iftimiu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Patriarch Porphirije of Serbia looking towards Kotor Bay on the Adriatic Sea, during a canonical visit in the Metropolis of Montenegro and the Seaside. Photo credit: Facebook \/ \u041f\u0430\u0442\u0440\u0438\u0458\u0430\u0440\u0445 \u0441\u0440\u0440\u043f\u0441\u043a\u0438 \u041f\u043e\u0440\u0444\u0438\u0440\u0438\u0458\u0435<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A memorial service was held at Putna Monastery in northern Romania on Saturday, September 28, 2024, for ethnic Romanians from Ukraine who died on the Russian-Ukrainian frontline. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Suceava and R\u0103d\u0103u\u021bi \/ Mihai Grosu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Hierod. Iustinian Stoica reads aloud Christian teachings at the Dervent Monastery refectory, Romania, while monks are eating. Photo credit: Protos. Sofronie Bobaru<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Romanian Orthodox Bishop Macarie of Northern Europe awards a little girl who participated in a philanthropic sporting event in Denmark, on Saturday, September 28, 2024. Photo credit: Facebook \/ Diocese of Northern Europe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The wonderworking \u201cSyriac\u201d Icon of the Mother of God is a beacon of hope for all who are going through life\u2019s trials. Photo credit: Facebook \/ Mihail Buc\u0103<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"\"Bishop Ieronim of Dacia Felix celebrated the officiated a Commemoration service at the Vorone\u021b Monastery in Romania for former Abbess Irina P\u00e2ntescu, who would have turned 92 on September 28, 2024. Photo credit: Constantin Ciofu<\/p>\n

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Members of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the USA and the Christ Pantocrator icon at the Orthodox Greek Cathedral in Atlanta, Georgia, on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. Photo credit: Deac. Theophani Sarigianis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A child kisses the engolpion of Archbishop Ioachim of Roman and Bac\u0103u, who visited the faithful in Filipe\u0219ti Parish, Bac\u0103u county, Romania, on Sunday, September 29, 2024. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and Bac\u0103u<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Orthodox faithful from Beclean, in the Romanian county of Bistri\u021ba-N\u0103s\u0103ud, braved the rain to attend the consecration of the church of the Pantocrator Monastery, protected by St. Paisios of Mt. Athos, on Sunday, September 29, 2024. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj \/ Ionu\u021b Chifa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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