Icon of St Innocent of Alaska Weeping Myrrh

Perhaps St Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow, Missionary to Alaska and Enlightener of the Aleuts, is weeping due to the construction of a Mega-Mosque in Alaska, a sign of the growing global jihad, and of the pressures against Orthodox Christians in so many areas around the globe. The ongoing spread of what St John of Damascus called "the superstition of the Ishmaelites, the forerunner of the Antichrist" should make all Christians weep. And the phenomenon of weeping icons are given us by the Lord to inspire us to deep repentance.


Icon of St Innocent of Moscow Weeping Myrrh in Khabarovsk
Pravoslavie — August 22, 2014

On August 20, 2014, in the house church of the Khabarovsk Theological Seminary, the icon of this educational establishment’s patron-saint, Holy Hierarch Innocent of Moscow (Veniaminov; 1797-1879; a great missionary in Siberia and north America, later Metropolitan of Moscow), began weeping myrrh, reports the Khabarovsk Diocese’s information department.

The unusual phenomenon was noticed by the seminary aspirants who came to take entrance examinations.

“The streaming myrrh was noticed by our seminary entrants who remained at the evening prayers. When we were informed about it, we saw drops on the eyes of the Holy Hierarch Innocent of Moscow and stains from them. This is an icon of our patron-saint so we performed a prayer service at once,” related the pro-rector of the Khabarovsk Theological Seminary Bishop Ephraim of Bikin. “When the icon was opened to make sure that it really was shedding myrrh, the church suddenly was filled with fragrant aroma. In order to document the fact that the icon started shedding myrrh, the seminary has drawn up a special record”.

CICERO ORTHODOX CHURCH CELEBRATES 20 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF MIRACULOUS WEEPING ICON OF THE VIRGIN MARY

“I personally view it as a sign to the world to help protect the presence of Christianity in the Holy Land. The Christians are disappearing from the Holy Land. That is the and where the Virgin Mary lived. That is where Christ came. And the plight of Christians has been ignored in that particular place in the world.” — Archpriest Nicholas Dahdal

Pravoslavie — May 1, 2014

by Ray Hanania

(Arab Daily News) St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church in Chicago’s west suburb of Cicero will hold a special service on Tuesday April 22 to honor the 20th anniversary of the discovery of a weeping icon of the Virgin Mary that has come to be known officially as “The Miraculous Lady of Cicero, Illinois.” 

Archpriest Nicholas Dahdal, the pastor of St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church, will join other clergy, hierarchy and the faithful at a celebration of the anniversary to be held on Tuesday April 22, which is the 3rd Day of Pascha, called “Bright Tuesday” beginning at 6:30 pm at the church, 1220 S. 60th Court in Cicero, Illinois. 

Economos Dahdal said that His Grace Bishop Anthony of Toledo and the Midwest Diocese of the Antiochian Orthodox church will preside over the commemoration. 

On April 22, 1994, parishioners witnessed tears shedding from the eyes of The Icon of the Theotokos on the Church’s Iconostasis. His Eminence the late Metropolitan Philip Saliba, who only last month passed away, formally declared the weeping icon a miracle and named it “The Miraculous Icon of Our Lady of Cicero.”