Defying pandemic fears, more than 50,000 Romanian pilgrims have prayed at the shrine of a 10th century Orthodox saint, regarded as a symbol for the poor and needy. Parascheva of the Balkans as she is known was buried in Iasi in the Metropolitan Cathedral in 1888. A pilgrimage at her shrine in the cathedral is … Continuă lectura Tens of thousands of Romanian pilgrims visit shrine of 10th-century Orthodox saint, symbol of poor