{"id":549652,"date":"2025-11-22T14:37:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=549652"},"modified":"2025-11-22T14:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:37:36","slug":"saint-jacob-putna-relic-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/saint-jacob-putna-relic-denmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Relic of Saint Jacob of Putna to be venerated in Denmark for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A particle of the relics of Saint Jacob of Putna, Metropolitan of Moldavia, will be brought for veneration for the first time in Denmark, in Copenhagen, between November 22-24.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The delegation from Putna Monastery will be led by Archimandrite Melchisedec Velnic, the monastery\u2019s abbot, and the holy relic will be received on Saturday at 19:00 by Bishop Macarie of Northern Europe, together with an assembly of clergy.<\/p>\n<p>The reliquary containing the hand of Saint Jacob of Putna will be placed for veneration in the Diocesan Chapel of the Copenhagen parish until Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The programme will include the Divine Liturgy, followed by a Vigil Service in honour of the saint.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Jacob of Putna (1719\u20131778), a great bishop, founder, defender of the poor and enlightener of Moldavia, is one of the great saints of Romanian monasticism, considered \u201cthe second founder of Putna\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FEpiscopiaEuropeideNord%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0Z9LaCEWh65UsdRqozAmgfbPbcYFEqrRX5j3oxb7yXDEgGwucGidULmYyf2BFHDVgl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"533\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Putna Monastery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A particle of the relics of Saint Jacob of Putna, Metropolitan of Moldavia, will be brought for veneration for the first time in Denmark, in Copenhagen, between November 22-24. The delegation from Putna Monastery will be led by Archimandrite Melchisedec Velnic, the monastery\u2019s abbot, and the holy relic will be received on Saturday at 19:00&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":412097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[13626,36405,36406,36407,7599,4245,53,7600],"class_list":["post-549652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diaspora-en","tag-bishop-macarie","tag-copenhagen-orthodox-parish","tag-northern-europe-diocese","tag-orthodox-events-denmark","tag-putna-monastery","tag-relics","tag-romanian-orthodox-church","tag-saint-jacob-of-putna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549652","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=549652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}