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Has anyone witnessed the Myrrh-streaming Iveron Icon of the Holy Theotokos of
Hawaii? From what I have read, this is truly a miraculous and wonderous happening.
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I have had the honor of venerating this icon and being anointed by its myrrh. I remember thinking that the smell of the myrrh was so beautiful that that must be what heaven might smell like. I will post some photos in that photo forum.


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I'd love to see and venerate it. Somehow I am more likely to place credence in myrrh-streaming icons than in statues of Mary which allegedly cry regular tears; and sometimes, tears of blood. Good heavens - how repellant.

Years ago someone I knew in Germany, out of a clear blue sky, sent me a large "Maria, Rosa Mystica" statue. It's a devotion associated with the unapproved apparitions of Our Lady at Montichiari-Fontanelle, italy. For several days after it arrived, I'd check on it from time to time to see if it had started cuttin' up. But no, not nary a single tear...thank goodness.

I did once go to Blanco, Tx. to see the allegedly myrrh-streaming icon of the Theotokos there - I was unsure what to think of the whole situation, so I quietly dropped it. Which turned out to have been a good instinct.


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