{"id":336115,"date":"2021-09-29T14:36:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T11:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=336115"},"modified":"2021-09-29T14:36:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T11:36:55","slug":"the-week-in-pictures-september-20-26-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/the-week-in-pictures-september-20-26-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Pictures: September 20 &#8211; 26, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There were many religious events in Rom\u00e2nia and the rest of the Orthodox world between September 20 and 26. Please find their story in the pictures below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_335714\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335714\" style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-335714 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/padu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1228\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Father Serafim of Turnu Monastery picking hawthorn fruit. Photo: Hieromonk Juvenalie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_335716\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335716\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-335716 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/s-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autumn crocuses blossomed on Sion Hill, above Putna Monastery. Photo: Putna Monastery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_335708\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335708\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-335708 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/243255637_4702254006451856_8922168026055918488_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Albania, each student was blessed and given a small icon by Archbishop Anastasios for the beginning of the school year. Photo: Facebook \/ Stephanos &amp; Alexandria Missionaries to Albania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_335710\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335710\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-335710 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_3430-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1500\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An elderly lady holding the icon of Great-martyr Eustatius at the patronal feast of the Iancu Vechi &#8211; M\u0103t\u0103sari Church in Bucharest. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Raluca Ene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_335694\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335694\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-335694 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/242886820_1472564616444415_4515508427786856355_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fr. Visarion Alexa of Bucharest conferenced in Namur, Belgium, for the young people of the Romanian diaspora. Photo: Visarion Alexa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_335692\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335692\" style=\"width: 502px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-335692 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/242673590_402691591223238_2913961046372299937_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"720\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On his birthday, radio host Daniel Buzdugan posted on social media a photo with him standing in front of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Ia\u0219i. Photo: Daniel Buzdugan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_335696\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335696\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-335696 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/242988845_1588184968018818_7445991907385116107_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Putna Monastery church profiling in the twilight before the Vigil for the Protection of the Mother of God and the Placing of St Jacob of Putna&#8217;s relics into the reliquary. Photo: Putna Monastery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_335712\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335712\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-335712 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/jonathan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"1352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raluca Mihalache, a reporter with Trinitas TV, the television channel of the Romanian Patriarchate, visited Orthodox actor Jonathan Jackson in Ireland for a show on Orthodox family life. Photo: Raluca Mihalache<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_335722\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335722\" style=\"width: 1900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-335722 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/MIR_8281-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1267\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The reliquary with the hand of the Holy Myrrh-bearer Mary Magdalene was brought from the Simonos Petra Athonite monastery to Pantocrator Monastery in southern Romania. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_335720\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335720\" style=\"width: 2500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-335720 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/detail20210926-VSN_3667-\u043e\u0431\u0440.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1663\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Child lighting a candle at &#8220;Christ the Saviour&#8221; Cathedral in Moscow. Photo: Russian Patriarchate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_335698\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335698\" style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-335698 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/243013568_1911319395714835_1909748974727909945_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Romanians dressed in folk costumes participated in the Divine Liturgy at &#8220;The Birth of the Mother of God&#8221; Church in Rohia. Photo: Diocese of Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103tmar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_335690\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335690\" style=\"width: 2033px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-335690 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/242553076_1990910031057731_5373881145151662767_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2033\" height=\"1355\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ceremony of placing Bishop Nifon Niculescu&#8217;s remains in the crypt from the Archdiocesan Cathedral in Gala\u0163i, inaugurated by him during World War I. The bishop&#8217;s remains were brought from Bucharest. Photo: Archdiocese of Lower Danube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_335744\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335744\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-335744 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/243209183_10160630544809796_5210505814452404551_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"541\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The feast of the Elevation of the Holy Cross according to the unrevised calendar in the Jerusalem Patriarchate. Photo: Jerusalem Patriarchate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_335700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335700\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-335700 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/243106185_579206256853449_2877961685225947117_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1325\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young people dressed in national costume greeted the hierarchs at the &#8220;Dormition of the Mother of God\u201d parish in the city of Cluj-Napoca. Their parish church was re-blessed 60 years after its consecration. Photo: Metropolis of Cluj, Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103laj \/ Darius Echim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_335702\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335702\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-335702 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/243107437_2336449423170912_3088875655217760945_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Archdiocesan Cathedral in Curtea de Arge\u0219 celebrated its second patronal feast: Holy Prince Neagoe Basarab. Photo: Archdiocese of Arge\u0219 and Muscel \/ Cristian Gheorghe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_335871\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335871\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-335871 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51511823665_2cd48c9744_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protopsaltes Ioannis Chasanidis of Thessaloniki offered the liturgical answers during the feast of St. Silouan the Athonite at Crnogorski Monastery in Bulgaria. Photo: Bulgarian Patriarchate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_336012\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-336012\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-336012 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/untitled-shoot-1916.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-336012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The feast of the Elevation of the Holy Cross according to the unrevised calendar at Warsaw Cathedral. Photo: Orthodox Church of Poland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_335761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335761\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-335761\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruchsal Parish of the Romanian diaspora in Germany celebrated its first anniversary. Photo: Serafim Armanca<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_335718\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335718\" style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-335718 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/SfintirePantocrator-95-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1500\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monk participating in the consecration of the main church of the Pantocrator Monastery in southern Romania. 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