{"id":256347,"date":"2019-10-20T23:01:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T20:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=256347"},"modified":"2019-10-20T23:01:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T20:01:33","slug":"romanian-patriarch-pays-tribute-to-queen-mother-helen-at-elisabeta-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/romanian-patriarch-pays-tribute-to-queen-mother-helen-at-elisabeta-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Romanian Patriarch pays tribute to Queen Mother Helen at Elisabeta Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel paid tribute to Romania\u2019s Queen Mother Helen at Elisabeta Palace in Bucharest on Friday, October 18, 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His Beatitude offered a prayer for the rest of the soul of Queen Helen, the wife of King Carol II and mother of King Michael I, and wrote a message of sympathy in the condolences book.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_256190\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-256190\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-256190 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/143-890x593.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"593\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-256190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patriarch Daniel writing in the Condolences Book for Queen Mother Helen. \u00a9 Lumina Newspaper\/ Luigi Ivanciu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Romanian Patriarch presented Her Majesty Crown Princess Margareta with an icon of the Holy Emperors Constantine and Helen, the spiritual protectors of Queen Helen.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_256192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-256192\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-256192 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MSP_0852-890x593.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"593\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-256192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patriarch Daniel presents HM Crown Princess Margareta with an icon depicting Saint Constantine the Great and his mother Helen. \u00a9 Lumina Newspaper \/ Luigi Ivanciu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The remains of Queen Mother Helen were brought from Switzerland to Romania on Friday, October 18, with a military plane belonging to the Romanian Air Forces.<\/p>\n<p>The plane landed at the Otopeni Airport at 11:00, and Margareta, custodian of the Romanian Crown, Prince Radu, Princesses Sofia and Maria, representatives of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Roman-Catholic Church, the Greek-Catholic Church, the Armenian Church, the Mosaic Cult and the Muslim Cult were present there.<\/p>\n<p>After a religious service officiated by Metropolitan Nifon of Targoviste at the Otopeni Airport, the Queen\u2019s coffin was taken to the Elisabeta Palace in Bucharest.<\/p>\n<p>From there, the remains were taken to the Curtea de Arges Monastery, where Queen Mother Helen was 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