An icon of Jesus Christ being crucified have
been ‘crying’ since January 25 at least priests
from a church in Asprokambos, Corinth,
Greece claim so.
Crowds have been flocking to see the weeping
icon at the church of St Nickolas in the Greek
village, which is believed to have a clear, oily,
sticky and odourless liquid running down it.
People amazed by the phenomenon have been
visiting the church to pray at the shrine – and
priests have vowed to get a team of scientists
to examine the tears.
The crying of the icon, which is around a
century old, has been billed by some as the
‘Miracle of Syriza’ – but Bishop Mantalos
called for prayer, adding, “In matters of faith
we must be very careful.” Greek journalists are
also skeptical, with some of them claimimg that
“the weeping icon is an urban legend that
resurfaces every now and again in Greece,
stories like this happen all the time.”
The majority of weeping paintings and icons
have turned out to be hoaxes. However, in
Eastern Orthodoxy, some cases such as a
weeping St Michael icon in Rhodes, island in
Greece, have been taken as miraculous. As
with weeping statues, the tears exuded are
often said to be of a substance which appears
to be similar to blood.