Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church leaders have removed the allegedly crying Virgin Mary icon against the wishes of its parishioners.

Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church crying Virgin Mary painting draws crowds despite $2.5 million sale of the historic century-old church.

Archbishop Iakovos, right, Greek Orthodox primate for North and South America, holds the icon known as the Weeping Virgin with Pagona Catsounis at her Island Park home, March 21, 1960.

A painting of the Virgin Mary at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, in the Belmont Central neighborhood appeared to be weeping on Sept. 8, 2019. For decades, believers throughout the Chicago area … ...

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One of the oldest icons of the Virgin Mother and Christ Child on display at The Met’s “Africa & Byzantium” special exhibit, which runs from November 2023 through March 2024.

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First, some background. Back in 2008, at a tiny Orthodox parish in Hawaii, a subdeacon there, a man named Nectarios, noticed myrrh streaming from an icon of the Virgin Mary.

But the Greek Orthodox Church said in a statement that if a church icon appears to be weeping, there is as protocol that is supposed to be observed and in this case was not.

Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church crying Virgin Mary painting draws crowds despite $2.5 million sale of the historic century-old church.