Four monasteries in one night

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We are leaving our third monastery tonight and are going to the fourth, which will be our final one for the night. They are five to fifteen minutes drive from each other (Moldovans are big on monasteries!), just enough for a quick post. Everyone we meet greets us with "Hristos a inviat!" which means "Christ is risen!" and our hosts reply "Adevarat a inviat" ("Truly risen"). This is the monastery we are leaving.



This is how the service here sounded: