Please see below our photo feature with shots captured by professional and amateur photographers during the second week of Lent: March 6-12, 2023.
Procession with the relics of the Holy 40 Martyrs and of St. Philophtheia at Bucharest’s Antim Monastery, on March 8, 2023. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela EneFather Iraclie Porumbescu was commemorated in his native village on the 200th anniversary of his birth, on March 9, 2023. Photo: Archdiocese of Suceava and RădăuțiThe Bishop of Maramureș and Sătmar blessed a child in Carei, northern Romania, on March 9, 2023. Photo: Diocese of Maramureș and SătmarA religious and military ceremony commemorating the political prisoners of the communist regime (1944 – 1989) was held at Bucharest’s “Wings” Memorial on March 9, 2023. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuPlaying the semantron to call faithful to the Divine Liturgy at Bucharest’s Antim Monastery, Romania, on March 9, 2023. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela EneFormer political prisoner Grigore Pepene participated in the commemoration of political prisoners from the communist period at the anonymous cemetery with mass graves in Gherla, Romania, on March 9, 2023. Photo: Metropolis of Cluj / Darius EchimSunshine squeezing through the windows of the Patriarchal Church in Istanbul’s Phanar neighbourhood, Turkey. Photo: Facebook / World Council of ChurchesA commemoration mass was officiated for the political prisoners of the communist prisons at Bucharest’s Annunciation – Belu on March 9, 2023. The date represents a national commemoration day. Photo: Georgiana BărîcăA mother and her daughter from Lithuania received the Orthodox Baptism at Hemeiuș Parish, in Romania’s Bacău county on March 11, 2023. Photo: Facebook / Hemeiuș ParishSunday of St. Gregory Palamas at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Sibiu, Romania, on March, 2023. Photo: Vasile IonuțThe Romanian Orthodox Parish of St. John the Baptist in Olbia, Sardegna Island, Italy. Photo: Parish of St. John the Baptist, OlbiaHis Grace Sofian of Brasov received two hugs worth a thousand words. Photo: Romulus-Valentin BăluțăRomania’s National Cathedral building site at night. Photo: Basilica.ro / Aurelian IftimiuCrasna Monastery, in Prahova county, Romania, surrounded by woods. Photo: Alin Horia MânzatHieroskemamonk Iulian, the confessor of the Romanian Skete Prodromu on Holy Mount Athos, passed away into the Lord on March 10, 2023. Photo: Prodromu SketeMănăstirea Cașin II Parish, in the county of Bacău, celebrated the feast of St. Simeon the New Theologian on March 12, 2023. The parish has the sole church in Romania protected by this saint. Photo: Archdiocese of Roman and BacauThe cave of St. Demetrius the New of Basarabi, protector of Bucharest, the capital of Romania, is situated in today’s Bulgaria. Photo: Fr. Serghie PârăuA little girl who wanted to talk to His Grace Varlaam of Ploiești held the hierarch’s hand at the Church of St. Gregory Palamas in the campus of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania, on March 12, 2023. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
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