Thursday, March 10, 2005
WEEPING ICONS
A report from UPI at the World Peace Herald:
TARTU, Estonia -- Visitors to a Russian Orthodox Church in a small town near the Belarusian capital report that icons there are now weeping blood, a development that the local clergy say reflects God's sadness at the rising tide of evil in the world and may point to impending disaster in that country.
According to an article published in "KP v Belorussii" and posted online late last month(portal-credo.ru/site/print.php?act=monitor&id=5871), approximately a dozen icons in an Orthodox church in Dzerzhinsk began to weep myrrh about a month ago, something that attracted the attention of the local community.
But in the last two weeks of February, more than 80 of the holy images in that church have begun to shed what appear to be tears of blood, as a picture featured in the article on the Web site shows. That in turn has attracted more people to the church and prompted the media attention that resulted in the "KP v Belorussii" report.
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