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anniversaries february
February 16
Könnyezo Szuz Mária, Sajópálfala, Miskolci, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén,
Hungary
During the Turkish occupation of the late 1600s, the town of Sajópálfala in
northeastern Hungary was destroyed and deserted. Not long after Rusyn Greek
Catholics resettled the area, the painting of the Madonna and Child in their
village church perspired and wept bloody tears, from January 6 to February 16,
1717. The investigating bishop took the picture to Eger, where it stayed in the
Franciscan church until the Communists dissolved the religious orders in 1950.
Then the painting was lost to the faithful of Sajópálfala, who had made an annual
pilgrimage to Eger on the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. In 1969, they located the
original weeping image in a church in the diocese of Pécs, where a friar had taken it when the Eger monastery closed. On October 25, 1973, after 256
years, the Weeping Virgin Mary returned to the Church of the Visitation in
Sajópálfala, where the main pilgrimage days are now Pentecost Sunday and the third
Sunday in October.
Sources:
 | Erika Papp
Faber, Our Mother's Tears: Ten Weeping Madonnas in Historic Hungary,
Academy of the Immaculate, New Bedford, MA, 2006 |
| The
church's website, sajopalfala-gorkat.borsodweb.hu (image) |
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Also commemorated this date:
| Madonna della Luce, Ugento, Lecce, Puglia, Italy (Madonna of Light).
Festa commemorates previously blind man's finding of painting in
1563. |
| Notre Dame des Douleurs, Kovié, Zio, Maritime, Togo (Our Lady of
Sorrows). First apparition to girls Timothée & Patience, 1998.
Diocesan pilgrimage in early December. |
| Reine de la Paix, Saigon, Vietnam (Queen of Peace). Statue installed
at cathedral, 1959. |
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