Month: June 2013

Visitation of the Image of Jesus the Merciful (part VI), Kamjen’ 2009.  Візітацыя абразу Езуса Міласэрнага (частка VI), Камень 2009 год. In 1991 the parishioners of Kamjen’ built a new church with their own resources and hands to replace the XVII century wooden church burned down in 1944. Adoration of the image.

Visitation of the Image of Jesus the Merciful (part V), Kamjen’ 2009.  Візітацыя абразу Езуса Міласэрнага (частка V), Камень 2009 год. The village of Kamjen’ (“Stone”), named after a giant boulder carried there during one of the Ice Ages, lies on the edge of the Nalibaki Wilderness (Nalibotskaja pushcha – Налібоцкая пушча) about 45 miles… Continue reading Photo of the Day for June 19, 2013

Visitation of the Image of Jesus the Merciful (parts III-IV), Kamjen’ 2009.  Візітацыя абразу Езуса Міласэрнага (часткі ІII-IV), Камень 2009 год. The village of Kamjen’ (“Stone”), named after a giant boulder carried there during one of the Ice Ages, lies on the edge of the Nalibaki Wilderness (Nalibotskaja pushcha – Налібоцкая пушча) about 45 miles… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 18, 2013

Preparing for the Visitation of the Image of Jesus the Merciful (part II), Kamjen’ 2009.  Візітацыя абразу Езуса Міласэрнага (частка ІI), Камень 2009 год. The village of Kamjen’ (“Stone”), named after a giant boulder carried there during one of the Ice Ages, lies on the edge of the Nalibaki Wilderness (Nalibotskaja pushcha – Налібоцкая пушча)… Continue reading Photo of the Day for June 17, 2013

Preparing for the Visitation of the Image of Jesus the Merciful (part I), Kamjen’ 2009.  Візітацыя абразу Езуса Міласэрнага (частка І), Камень 2009 год. Currently the relics of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus are on a cycle of visitations to parishes throughout Belarus.  Simultaneously, and in preparation  for the upcoming 400th anniversary of the… Continue reading Photo of the Day for June 16, 2013

Pals, Il’lja 2012.  Сябры, Ільля 2012 год. Il’lja, a friendly village of about 1900 people, lies 45 miles north of Mjensk on the route to the Blue Lakes.   It is always a pleasure to stop at Il’lja’s roadside farm stands to banter with the vendors and to buy their fresh eggs, creamy raw milk, summer… Continue reading Photo of the Day for June 15, 2013

To celebrate Orthodox Ascension Day.  З нагоды Ўшэсьця Гасподняга. Churches of Belarus (part XXXV).  Цэрквы Беларусі (частка XXXV). View toward the Orthodox church of the Ascension, Moladava 2007.  This view no longer exists owing to the recent construction of an out-of-scale, Russoid-style church right behind the church of the Ascension. Выгляд на царкву Ўшэсьця Гасподняга,… Continue reading Photo of the Day for June 14, 2013: Orthodox Ascension Day / Ушэсьця Гасподняга

Women of Polesia (part XLII).  Паляшучкі (частка XLII). This grandmother holds a jar of milk fresh from the cow. Ljubavichy 2010.  Любавічы 2010 год.

Summer Landscapes of Belarus.  Летнія краявіды Беларусі. Near Markinjaty 2008.  Ля в. Маркіняты 2008 год.

Presentation of Belarusian dresses from the turn of the 20th century, Janka Kupala State Literary Museum in Mjensk (part VI):  Ms. Anzhela. Дэфіле беларускіх сукенак з канца 19-а й пачатку 20-а стагодзьдзяў у Дзяржаўным літаратурным музеі Янкі Купалы ў Менску (частка VI):  спадарыня Анжэла. Museums in Mjensk joined sister museums from around the world by… Continue reading Photo of the Day for June 11, 2013