The Roma celebrating the Theotokos

(Boston.com) - The Roma community in Romania celebrates the Birth of the Virgin Mary in Costesti, Romania. Thousands of Gypsies or Roma gather on a hillside after attending a religious service in a nearby monastery and celebrate the holiday by sharing food and playing traditional music until the next dawn. The feast day of the Assumption of Mary, or simply Assumption Day or St Mary’s Day, is one of the most important feasts in the Orthodox Christian calendar.
A woman passes under a table, part of a local tradition at the Bistrita Monastery in Costesti, Romania. (Vadim Ghirda/AP)

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  1. DebDSeptember 8, 2014 at 8:41 PM

    Why would they call today's feast "Assumption Day". Are they celebrating her birth or her dormition/assumption?? Or, is the journalist clueless?

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  2. ElizabethSeptember 9, 2014 at 12:23 PM

    Probably a reporter who is unfamiliar with the Orthodox calendar. There are several more photos at this website: http://blog.apimages.com/2014/09/08/aromacelebration/

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  3. CritiqueSeptember 11, 2014 at 10:15 PM

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  4. CritiqueSeptember 11, 2014 at 10:26 PM

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  5. CritiqueSeptember 11, 2014 at 10:29 PM

    Well folks, there's nothing wrong with the journalist's report posted above. Three of you should pay attention to the sentences. That’s why there are periods (.) at the end of each sentence, so you should stop (pause) and then start the new one (just in case that you don’t know the role of punctuation signs). After describing the event on first two sentences, at the last sentence, the journalist wants to emphasize the greater importance of the Feast of Assumption or Dormition in the Orthodox Christian Calendar

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