Máriapócs

47°53′N 22°02′E / 47.883°N 22.033°E / 47.883; 22.033Country HungaryCountySzabolcs-Szatmár-BeregArea • Total22.09 km² (8.53 sq mi)Population • Total2,153 • Density97/km² (250/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postal codeArea code42

Máriapócs is a small town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. It lies near Nyíregyháza. Saint Michael the Archangel Greek Catholic Church is an important place for pilgrimage, housing a miraculous icon of the Mother of God, which wept twice. This icon is not the original, but an 18th-century copy. The original one, which wept once, is kept in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.^[1]

See also

• Hungarian Greek Catholic Church

References

Sources

• Ivan Pop. "Mariapocs Monastery". World Academy of Rusyn Culture. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
• "Mariapocs Monastery Official Hungarian Site 2012". Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2012-05-19.
• Tamás Véghseő - Szilveszter Terdik, “…you have foreseen all of my paths…”: Byzantine Rite Catholics in Hungary, Strasbourg: Éditions Du Signe, 2012. ISBN 978-2-7468-2775-2

External links

• Official Site of the Sanctuary of Máriapócs
• Official Site of the Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
• The Shrine of Máriapócs - The Carpathian Connection
• Our Lady of Mariapócs on "All About Mary" The University of Dayton's Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute (IMRI) is the world's largest repository of books, artwork and artifacts devoted to Mary, the mother of Christ, and a pontifical center of research and scholarship with a vast presence in cyberspace.