Weeping Virgin Mary
Sajópálfala Hungary (1717)
During the Turkish occupation of the late 1600s, the town of Sajópálfala in northeastern Hungary was destroyed and deserted.
Not long after the area was resettled, a painting of the Madonna and Child in their village church perspired and wept bloody tears, from January 6 to February 16, 1717.
The investigating bishop took the picture to Eger, where it stayed in the Franciscan church and became the object of an annual pilgrimage on the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows.
Lost to the faithful after Communist interventions, the original weeping image was located in 1969 in a church in the diocese of Pécs, where a friar had taken it for safety.
In 1973, after 256 years, the Weeping Virgin Mary returned to the Church of the Visitation.
Text and image used with permission.
Source: "365 Days with Mary" by Michael O'Neill
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