{"id":526480,"date":"2025-05-12T14:09:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=526480"},"modified":"2025-05-12T14:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:17:58","slug":"the-week-in-pictures-may-5-11-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/the-week-in-pictures-may-5-11-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Pictures: May 5 – 11, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Throughout every corner of the Orthodox world, the faith is manifested in form and colour through gestures, prayers, encounters, and events of profound spiritual meaning.<\/strong><\/p>\n

From patriarchal visits and interreligious dialogues to moments of prayer, commemoration, and hope, the Church lives and expresses itself through persons, places, and acts of faith. Through this new series of images, we invite you to discover the heartbeat of a week rich in spiritual significance and contemporary realities.<\/p>\n

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A multitude of children came to pray to Saint Ephraim the New on May 5, 2025, at Bucharest\u2019s Radu Vod\u0103 Monastery, where a relic of the saint is kept. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Raluca-Emanuela Ene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"\"Little Nektarios is on a pilgrimage to the Monastery of Saint Ephraim in Greece on May 5, 2025. Photo: Corina Anghel<\/p>\n

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Romania\u2019s National Cathedral bathed in sunrise light. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Archdeacon Nicolae Iftimiu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Procession with the icon of Holy Great Martyr George at Zografu Monastery on May 6, 2025. Photo: Bulgarian Patriarchate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The nuns of the P\u0103dureni Monastery, Romania, celebrated its patron saint, Holy Apostle and Evangelist John, on the saint\u2019s feast day, May 8, 2025. Photo: Metropolis of Cluj \/ Darius Echim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Prayer before the holy relics of Saint Matrona the Blind at Bucharest\u2019s Darvari Monastery. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Archdeacon Nicolae Iftimiu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hierarchical Divine Liturgy celebrated at the Tulcea Penitentiary in Romania on May 8, 2025. Photo: Diocese of Tulcea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The tomb of Saint Sophrony at the Monastery of Saint John the Baptist in Essex, England. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Raluca-Emanuela Ene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The monastic synaxis of the Metropolis of Moldavia and Bukovina was held at the Diocesan Centre in Roman, Romania, on May 8, 2025. Photo: Archdiocese of Roman and Bac\u0103u<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A moment of respite beneath the icon of the Saviour at the Essex Monastery, on May 9, 2025. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Raluca-Emanuela Ene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Solemn Divine Liturgy and prayer on the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of the restoration of the Bulgarian Patriarchate, on May 10, 2025. Photo: Bulgarian Patriarchate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bishop Iustin of Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103tmar holding a local little girl. Photo: Diocese of Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103tmar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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His Eminence Athanasie, the first Romanian Orthodox Archbishop of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, was enthroned at the new Romanian Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral in London\u2019s Enfield neighbourhood. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Raluca-Emanuela Ene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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His Beatitude Porfirije, Patriarch of Serbia, blessed an infant on May 11, 2025. Photo: Serbian Patriarchate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The faithful of the \u201cHoly Archangels Michael and Gabriel\u201d Parish in Beudiu, Bistri\u021ba-N\u0103s\u0103ud County, Romania, took part in the reconsecration of their church on May 11, 2025. Photo: Metropolis of Cluj \/ Darius Echim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Patriarch of Jerusalem went on a pastoral visit to Nazareth on May 11, 2025. Photo: Jerusalem Patriarchate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Girdle of the Mother of God from Vatopaidi Monastery on Mount Athos was brought for veneration to the city of Karditsa, Greece, on May 11, 2025. Photo: Orthodoxia News Agency<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Young acolyte serving at the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral in Enfield, London. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Raluca-Emanuela Ene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A squirrel captured near the resting place of Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh at Brompton Cemetery, London. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Raluca-Emanuela Ene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Romania\u2019s National Day of Traditional Dress was celebrated in many places, including at Bucharest\u2019s \u00a0\u201cSaint Spyridon\u201d \u2013 the New Metropolitan Cathedral on May 11, 2025. Photo: Ziarul Lumina \/ Mircea Popa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A conference dedicated to the Holy Priest-Martyr Liviu Galaction of Cluj, a victim of the communist persecution in Romania, was held at a parish in Bac\u0103u, Romania, on May 11, 2025. Photo: Archdiocese of Roman and Bac\u0103u<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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