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The STRANQG MysTeRy of
The weepiNQ madonnas
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Mrs. Pagona Cotsounij kisses Bible held by the Rev. George
Papadeas as her husband watches. Icon is circled by flowers.
as he did when he answered the first call to the Catsounis
home filled with apprehension that it could be a cruel
hoax on his parishioners.
But when Father Papadeas began to examine the Cat
sounises' Byzantium-styled portrait, a tiny droplet appeared
in the Madonna's eye and rolled down the cheek. He knew
then that he had witnessed what he termed a "miracle."
Could it happen again? That was what ran through the
priest's mind as he walked to the Koulis Shrine and took
the icon in hand to examine it. In silence, he removed the
lithograph from its glass-covered frame. The bottom of
the portrait was soaked, and Mrs. Koulis told the priest it
got that way from the many tears the Virgin was shedding.
As Father Papadeas studied the Madonna's face closely,
fresh tears reportedly welled in both Her eyes and streamed
down the face. As before, Father Papadeas telephoned
Archbishop Iakovos, head of the Greek Orthodox Church
in North and South America, to come and see for himself.
The Archbishop arrived at the Catsounis home after the
tearing had ceased. The Catsounises and Father Papa
deas had some misgivings about what the Archbishop
would say, for there was no evidence then that the icon
was anything but an ordinary painting.
But the Archbishop had nodded pleasantly to them as
they led him to the shrine. It was like hundreds of others
he had seen. Yet, he indicated later, there was something
different in a spiritual sense there was the feeling of deep
faith and love, and it had spread beyond the small apart
ment to people thousands of miles away.
Wordlessly, the Archbishop knelt before the Catsounises'
shrine. Later he declared the shrine hallowed ground and
ordered the Madonna enshrined in the Catsounises' church.
He explained this decision was made not so much on the
basis of whether the Madonna wept or did not weep, but
rather that it was dictated by man's unquestioning faith
in God's closeness and love.
Now, as he viewed the Madonna in the Koulis apartment,
the Archbishop did not have to be guided by the faith of
others: he saw the Madonna weep.
Then and there, the Archbishop proclaimed the occur
rence a miracle and ordered the icon enshrined beside the
first one in St. Paul's Church.
As the icon was taken to the church in an 80-car pro
cession the following day Holy Thursday Mrs. Koulis
wept openly. She couldn't help thinking of her prophetic
dream of Christ on the Cross telling her: "You will see
what happens on Holy Thursday."
What does it all mean? Why this phenomenon of weep
ing Madonnas? In the statement on page 2, Archbishop
Iakovos gives his explanation of the "miracles."
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Family Weekly. June 12. 1960