Pilgrims Flock To Weeping Icon

Hundreds of pilgrims flocked to a remote mountain monastery Sunday to pray and kiss an icon of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary that reportedly has begun to weep.

Abbot Nikiforos of the Kykko monastery said monks noticed tears on Saturday flowing down the cheeks of the Virgin Mary and Jesus as depicted on the icon.

“I have no explanation at all for this phenomenon, but as Orthodox Christians, we believe in miracles,” he said.

The 200-year-old icon shows the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus in her arms.

Witnesses said tears can be seen forming very slowly in their eyes and then flowing almost imperceptibly down the icon.

The monastery is 25 miles northwest of Nicosia.