The last week of winter was full of events in the Orthodox world. Please find below our selection of pictures taken between February 22 and 28, 2021.
Spring has some difficulty chasing away winter from Putna Monastery. Photo: Facebook / Putna MonasteryEnd of February in Vișeu de Sus, the county of Maramureș. Photo: Monica GladSt. Sava Cathedral in Belgrade. Photo: Twitter / NikolaosMonk Porfirios’ portrait made by Bishop Maximos of Los Angeles and West America. Photo: Twitter / Maxim VladikaNew Icon Skete in the county of Neamț on the last winter day. Photo: Doxologia / Gheorghe MihalacheA wheat wreath adorning the Saviour’s Cross from the “Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel” Church in Păniceni, Cluj county. Photo: Metropolis of Cluj / Darius EchimEcumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I celebrated his birthday. His Sanctity is 81 years old, being born on February 29, 1940. Photo: Ecumenical Patriarchate / Nikos ManginasThe “St. Demetrios – Post” Church organized the charity fair “Mărțișor for the soul”. Photo: Facebook / “St. Demetrios – Post” Church, University ChapelThe Patriarch of Serbia with the people of Majske Poljane town, in Croatia, who were affected by the earthquake from last December. Photo: Spc.rsPatriarch Daniel in a moment of prayer during the Te Deum service held before the meeting of the Holy Synod. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuMural painting on a wall in Athens, Greece, on the 200th anniversary of the 1821 Revolution. Photo: Romfea.grThe Merry Graveyard in the village of Săpânța, in northern Romania. Photo: Iustina LăcătușuFather Liviu Neacșu on a soul-to-soul visit at the patients of the County Emergency Hospital in the city Giurgiu. Photo: Liviu NeacșuSerbian priests visiting the Covid-19 patients. Photo: Twitter / Sava JanjicArchbishop Calinic at the Princely Parish in the city of Câmpulung Muscel. Photo: Facebook / Archdiocese of Argeș and MuscelA pigeon visited the Basilica News Agency offices. Photo: Basilica.ro / Aurelian IftimiuDivine Liturgy at the Archdiocesan Cathedral in the city of Roman. Photo: Archdiocese of Roman and BacăuMetropolitan Alexander of Mantineia and Kynouria tending the vine. Photo: Orthodoxia News Agency
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