Icon of Crucified Christ Started Weeping In Greece

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.”

Crowds have been flocking to see the icon at the
church of St Nickolas in Asprokambos, Greece
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.