- Condition: MNH (**)
- Year: 2012
- Catalogue: LPMP
- Number(s): 1935/001/2012
- Catalog value: Lei
- Internal ID: 007_04
- Size: 220x110 mm
- Categories: religion, easter, cathedral.
- DE: Rumänien.
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HOLY EASTER
2012
On the occasion of Easter holidays, Romfilatelia introduces into
circulation the postage stamps issue HOLY EASTER 2012.
The Resurrection of our Lord, this miracle that has been in the
Christian mind for two millennia, has always made people become
better to be able to properly receive the Light of Christ´s
Resurrection.
The postage stamp of this issue illustrates the icon The
Resurrection of Christ, made in 1876, which can be found in the
patrimony of Saint Pantelimon Church inBucharest.
260 years ago, the ancient wooden church that laid on the
location of the current Saint Pantelimon Church was mentioned for
the first time in the testament of the ruler Grigore Ghica.
In 1790, Ioan de la Silvestru built a new holy place on the
location of the former church; he painted the icon of Virgin Mary
and of Jesus Christ. The builder of the holy place also painted the
outline of the church on a wooden box containing 11 small icons
depicting several holidays.
Seriously damaged by the earthquake in 1838, almost three
decades later, the decision to build the church in its current form
was taken.
The foundation stone of the current church is laid in 1872; the
church was built according to the blueprints of the Architect Nae
Cucu and it was painted by G. Stoenescu, a student of Gh.
Tattarescu.
In 1876 the church was finished in the current shape of a cross,
having two wooden steeples, the front one being the bell tower.
Both, the earthquakes from 1940 and that one from 1977 damaged
the church to such an extent that its consolidation was needed.
This work was finished in 1979 and the initial appearance, both
inside and outside, was preserved.
Since 2008 the church shelters the relics of Saint Great Martyr
and Healer Pantelimon, the patron of physicians and guardian of the
ill. A reliquary of great value from the church patrimony preserves
the robe of Pious Saint Parascheva.
On the 9th of January 2012, one of the church steeples was
engulfed by a devastating fire and it is considered to be a miracle
the fact that both the iconostasis, located under the steeple, and
the wooden cross that fell and was recovered from the scrap of the
steeple fallen inside the church, were not damaged by the fire and
by the water used for extinguishing the fire.
The church was rebuilt in only one week and so that, on the 15th
of January 2012 it was re-sanctified by His Beatitude Father
Daniel, the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, who
performed the service together with a synod of priests.
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