Blanco, Texas - Miracle Weeping Icon of the Virgin Mary - Gone
- Address:
- Blanco, TX
- Directions:
- Christ of the Hills Monastery. New Sarov, Northwest of Blanco, Texas off Ranch Road 103.
- Hours:
- Closed - Icon taken as part of fraud investigation.
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Blanco, Texas - Miracle Weeping Icon of the Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Monastery in the Texas hill country displays an icon of the Virgin Mary reputed to weep real tears. [Randall McKee, 08/15/2005][RA: A monk noticed the icon of Our Lady of New Sarov weeping "tears of Myrrh" in a chapel at Christ of the Hills Monastery in May 1985. Cotton balls along the bottom edge of the image collect the tears, which a Russian Orthodox priest uses to rub blessings on visitors.]
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