On Monday March 30, 2015, the Amitié-Club de la Haye celebrated it’s the 50th anniversary as well as the month of the Francophone. H.E. Mrs. Ireny Comaroschi, Ambassador of Romania in the Netherlands was envisaged to deliver a lecture on Orthodox Easter traditions in her country Roumania.
Furthermore, an introduction into the tradition of decorating Easter eggs. More than 85% of Roumania is Orthodox and Easter is the largest Orthodox celebration in Romania.
For a photo-album on this event, please open the following link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/121611753@N07/sets/72157651312672578/
Two artists from Bucovina performed. Bucovina is the region in the North-West part of Moldavia, the “High Country”, that is also the region of the monasteries. Cristina Timu and Maria Zinici explained the ancestral technique passed on from generation to generation, and they demonstrated the different symbols in some of the eggs.
