{"id":278328,"date":"2020-04-27T21:25:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T18:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=278328"},"modified":"2020-04-27T21:25:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T18:25:39","slug":"romanian-priest-lights-easter-candles-at-tombs-of-wwi-soldiers-i-chanted-christ-is-risen-being-surrounded-by-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/romanian-priest-lights-easter-candles-at-tombs-of-wwi-soldiers-i-chanted-christ-is-risen-being-surrounded-by-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Romanian priest lights Easter candles at tombs of WWI soldiers: I chanted \u2018Christ is risen\u2019 being surrounded by heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As a token of love and honour for those who sacrificed their lives during the First World War, the Romanian priest in Munster, Germany, went to the memorial cemetery in D\u00fclmen\u00a0with Easter candles and prayed for the souls of the departed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018This year, on the second day of Easter, I went together with our parish\u2019s vestryman George Toderita to bring them the Easter Light and to chant Christ is risen,\u2019 Fr Dimitrie Ursache told the Basilica News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018After serving without believers due to the situation caused by the COVID-19 epidemic, now we sang Christ is risen being surrounded by heroes. It was a unique feeling! May their memory be eternal from generation to generation!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Father Dimitrie spoke of the Romanian heroes buried at D\u00fclmen\u00a0as members of his congregation.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018With great surprise, I found out in May 2018 that our parish has 44 more souls than I knew. Forty-four Romanian heroes rest in eternal sleep in the Dulmen cemetery. I went there one night to convince myself. Emotions overwhelmed me reading the Romanian names on the tombstones. Since then, we started officiating a memorial service for their souls at least on Heroes\u2019 Remembrance Day.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The forty-four Romanian soldiers were taken prisoners during WWI and died because of injuries, famine or illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Photography courtesy of the Romanian Orthodox Parish in Munster, Germany<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter: @BasilicaNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a token of love and honour for those who sacrificed their lives during the First World War, the Romanian priest in Munster, Germany, went to the memorial cemetery in D\u00fclmen\u00a0with Easter candles and prayed for the souls of the departed. \u2018This year, on the second day of Easter, I went together with our parish\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":277926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[23116,10386,4794,21669,4459,23197],"class_list":["post-278328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diaspora-en","tag-easter-2020","tag-orthodox-news","tag-romanian-diaspora","tag-romanian-soldiers","tag-wwi","tag-wwi-heroes"],"better_featured_image":{"id":277926,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":960,"height":720,"file":"2020\/04\/94366515_1532345513595470_3151733781619015680_o.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"94366515_1532345513595470_3151733781619015680_o-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/94366515_1532345513595470_3151733781619015680_o-360x360.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"94366515_1532345513595470_3151733781619015680_o-890x668.jpg","width":890,"height":668,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/94366515_1532345513595470_3151733781619015680_o-890x668.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":278328,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/94366515_1532345513595470_3151733781619015680_o.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278328\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=278328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278328\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277926\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=278328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=278328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=278328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}