{"id":416159,"date":"2023-02-21T10:40:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T08:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=416159"},"modified":"2023-02-21T10:40:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T08:40:02","slug":"the-week-in-pictures-february-13-19-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/the-week-in-pictures-february-13-19-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Pictures: February 13 \u2013 19, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Please see below a new week-in-pictures photo feature from the Orthodox world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_415835\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-415835\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-415835 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/biserici_iesene_-_foto_pr_silviu_cluci_wm_2518.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-415835\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doxologia.ro has posted never-before-seen photos of churches in Ia\u0219i. Photo: Doxologia \/ Fr. Silviu Cluci<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_415847\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-415847\" style=\"width: 2516px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-415847 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/parohia-stanesti-botosani-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2516\" height=\"2560\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-415847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The icon of Holy Hierarch. Nicolae at St\u0103ne\u0219ti Parish in Lunca, Boto\u0219ani county, Romania. Photo: Lori Gia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_415534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-415534\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-415534 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Biserica-Mavrogheni-104.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-415534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bucharest&#8217;s Mavrogheni Church, where the sculptor Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i was a singer during his studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_415853\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-415853\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-415853 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/san-francisco-sf-ioan-maximovici-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-415853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The canopy with the relics of Holy Hierarch John Maximovici in the San Francisco Cathedral, California. Photo: Protosyncellus Sofronie Bobaru<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_415855\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-415855\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-415855 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Sf-Gheorghe-vechi-hram.-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-415855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Church of Old &#8220;St. George&#8221; on the feast day of the Holy Great-martyr Theodore Tiron, February 17, 2023. Photo: Mariana Stanc\u0103<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_415845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-415845\" style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-415845 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/parastas-psalti-125-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-415845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A commemoration service for all Romanian psalters and hymnographers was officiated at Bucharest&#8217;s Old &#8220;B\u0103rb\u0103tescu&#8221; Parish on February 17, 2023. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Mircea Florescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_415851\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-415851\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-415851 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sambata-mortilor-sibiu-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2552\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-415851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Memorial Saturday at the Great Church of Gura R\u00e2ului, Sibiu county, Romania. Photo: Iuliana C\u00eempan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_415837\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-415837\" style=\"width: 1234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-415837 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Deva-iposifiere.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1234\" height=\"843\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-415837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Archimandrite Gherontie Ciupe, elected auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Deva and Hunedoara, was ordained at the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Deva, Romania, on February 18, 2023. Photo: Diocese of Deva and Hunedoara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_415893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-415893\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-415893 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/cmn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-415893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The National Cathedral seen from the Patriarchal Cathedral. Photo: Fr. Serghie P\u00e2r\u0103u<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_415896\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-415896\" style=\"width: 2002px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-415896\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/martorona-mosaic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2002\" height=\"2048\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-415896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mosaic of the Church of Santa Maria dell&#8217;Ammiraglio, Palermo, Italy. Photo: Twitter \/ Fr. Ioan Tofan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_415879\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-415879\" style=\"width: 1365px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-415879 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/331962202_1630284214087205_1435934747304162048_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1365\" height=\"2048\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-415879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young man holds a Byzantine portrait of Father Gherasim Iscu, martyr of the communist prisons, in Targu Ocna, Romania, on February 18, 2023. Photo: Facebook \/ Sorin Dediu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_415833\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-415833\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-415833 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/biserica-din-han-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-415833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Memorial Saturday at the Church of Han, near C\u00e2mpina, Romania, on February 18. Photo: Afsar Amirabad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_415868\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-415868\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-415868\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/targu-ocana-pomenire-detinuti.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-415868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The commemoration of the confessing martyrs of the Targu Ocna communist prison on February 18, 2023. Photo: Archdiocese of Roman and Bac\u0103u<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_415839\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-415839\" style=\"width: 1915px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-415839 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/icoana-Maica-Domnului-berislavesti.-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1915\" height=\"2560\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-415839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Icon of Our Lady of Sweet Kissing, the patron saint of the Berisl\u0103ve\u0219ti Monastery in Valcea county, Romania. Photo: Hieromonk Siluan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_415831\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-415831\" style=\"width: 1536px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-415831 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/agapa-lasatul-secului-oborul-nou.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-415831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Communal meal on the Sunday of the Dreadful Judgement (of the Meatleaving) at Bucharest&#8217;s &#8220;St. Constantine and Helen &#8211; Oborul Nou&#8221; Parish on February 19, 2023. Photo: Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_415841\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-415841\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-415841 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IPS-Andrei-vizita-pastorala.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1367\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-415841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Metropolitan of Cluj, Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103laj among the faithful of the Orthodox Parish of Sebi\u0219, in Bistri\u021ba-N\u0103s\u0103ud county, Romania, on February 19, 2023. Photo: Metropolis of Cluj \/ Darius Echim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_415857\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-415857\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-415857 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/timiseni-sag.-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-415857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A moment from the Holy Mass at the Timi\u0219eni-\u0218ag Monastery Paraclesis on February 19, 2023. Photo: Adrian Anitas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_415849\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-415849\" style=\"width: 899px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-415849 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ps-Visarion-ierusalim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"899\" height=\"1599\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-415849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">His Grace Visarion, Bishop of Tulcea, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at Jerusalem&#8217;s Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Photo: Diocese of Tulcea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_415843\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-415843\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-415843 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/manastirea-crasna-feburarie-2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-415843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mid-February snapshot from Crasna Monastery, in Prahova county, Romania. Photo: Facebook \/ \u0218tefan Chirobocea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last week\u2019s most-liked Instagram post:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CopQB0Cu1m6\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CopQB0Cu1m6\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Basilica.ro (@basilica.ro)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Do you want to be featured in our weekly selection of photos?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>We would gladly include one of your photos depicting Orthodox life in our weekly selection. All you have to do is send the picture(s) you have taken to our email address [foto @ basilica.ro] along with a short description. Please mention WIP (Week in Pictures) in the email subject line. Please note that every WIP article will include photos taken in the previous week.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BasilicaPhotos?s=20&amp;t=NU8HpYex2OlWqT5-xRCRVg\">@BasilicaPhotos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please see below a new week-in-pictures photo feature from the Orthodox world. Last week\u2019s most-liked Instagram post: &nbsp; View this post on Instagram &nbsp; A post shared by Basilica.ro (@basilica.ro) Do you want to be featured in our weekly selection of photos? 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