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This report is not for those who refuse to believe. It is for those who want to believe. There is no scientific or natural explanation for the scores, if not hundreds, of weeping statues and paintings of Mary or Jesus which have occurred even in these last 50 years. No explanations! And yet, the skeptic does not want to believe. They seek out a hoax, and yes there are a few, and they point to the hoax as the answer to all the other ones they have chosen not to investigate. Sorry, you have satisfied only yourself with that hope. The wooden statue of Mary in a convent in Akita, Japan wept tears of blood and also oil on 101 occasions before a host of eye witnesses, plus it was video taped and shown on Japanese TV back in 1973. No one has come forward with any scientific or natural explanation. So the world moves on and chooses to forget. Why? Because they do not want to know or admit that God is real and speaking to us through His mother. This happens all the time!
Nor will the skeptic accept the words of a scientist or medical doctor when that individual is the eye witness and says this sign is from God. Because now science is not on their side, so once again, they choose to ignore. In this recent article below, a well known doctor of medicine has given testimony to the day he visited a small Albanian Catholic church in Chicago and witnessed for himself the copious weeping of tears from a large painting of Mary and Jesus. This man is not likely to lie or to get all excited and embellish what he saw. He is calm and rational in his words. What he saw is what many thousands of others witnessed over a period of months and then years later once again. Tears of oil or myrrh (the church refused to have it analyzed because they considered the tears of the Virgin to be sacred and had no interest in them being handled in anything but a sacred way – I agree) poured down from the Virgin’s eyes many, many, many times. A hoax? Sure. Why then repeat it on scores of occasions for many years if one did not want the hoax uncovered? No. It is a miracle. That word everyone wants to laugh away at. Sorry. God does not need to listen to what the world demands. He does as He pleases. To the faithful, it bolsters their faith. To the skeptic, a direct challenge to their senses.
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http://ocl.org/rouman-a-dr-who-believes-in-miracles/
Medical Doctor’s eye witness to WEEPING ICON IN CHICAGO
Dr. Rouman, anesthesiologist --- “What I personally observed in that little church in Chicago was not an illusion. It was not a matter of whether there were a few tears that had wetted an icon. There was material enough streaming from the Virgin’s eyes to have been collected and used to anoint hundreds of persons over several months’ time. As for skeptics, there were obviously some. To them, all I can say is that those who need tidy and finite answers to metaphysical questions or inexplicable religious phenomena will not be satisfied until such time they have had a religious experience of their own. Only then will the need for explanations be put aside.”
Rouman: a Dr. Who Believes in Miracles
August 21, 2015 Source: The National Herald BY CONSTANTINOS E. SCAROS
HARTFORD, CT – The National Herald’s recent article “Greek-Americans and Miracles over the Decades” (Aug. 8) prompted Dr. James Rouman, a retired anesthesiologist and the author of two novels, to share is own firsthand account of a miracle that occurred almost 30 years ago, yet remains fresh in his mind and left a profound effect on him.
“I was attending a medical meeting at an O’Hare Airport Hotel in March 1987,” Dr. Rouman told TNH, “when I learned of a tearing (weeping) icon at an obscure Albanian Orthodox Church in Chicago, and decided to see for myself what the fuss reported in the newspapers and on television was all about.
“Arriving at the church, I saw a line of people waiting to enter the building in front of which several tour busses were parked,” he continued. “For over four months, more than a quarter million people from as far away as Ceylon, Sri Lanka, England, Rome, and Egypt had made the pilgrimage to see what for many was believed to be a miracle.
“On the afternoon of my visit, a church official remarked that the icon was weeping more than usual, and that the amount of material coming from the eyes of the Virgin Mary was sufficient to permit those present to be anointed if they so desired. Soon it would be my turn to witness the unforgettable. Approaching the icon, I recognized it to be a painting on canvas over wood, standing about five feet tall, three feet wide, and in colors primarily of red and gold. One could see that the icon positioned on the iconostasis was in no way supported from behind or touching anything other than the screen, itself, of which it was a part. As I stood before the icon, I saw a liquid substance falling directly from the pupils of the Virgin Mary’s eyes, over her face and clothing, reaching finally to the bottom of the icon.
“There the exudate was carefully collected, placed in a small silver bowl and taken to several priests, who while uttering words of blessing and prayer, anointed those who came forward. At that moment I knew I was witnessing not just a religious phenomenon, but an awesome and miraculous event unlike anything I could have ever imagined. And although I stood in wonder, I felt transformed by the experience as the tears were placed on my forehead.”
Mod Edit:
The New York Times reports on the weeping painting in the Chicago Church
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/22/us/weeping-virgin-icon-draws-throngs-to-chicago.html
Another article on the painting and a web site with numerous weepings
http://www.visionsofjesuschrist.com/weeping48.htm
Brief summaries of numerous documented weeping images of Mary and Jesus
http://miracles.mcn.org/iconsarchive.html
Nor will the skeptic accept the words of a scientist or medical doctor when that individual is the eye witness and says this sign is from God. Because now science is not on their side, so once again, they choose to ignore. In this recent article below, a well known doctor of medicine has given testimony to the day he visited a small Albanian Catholic church in Chicago and witnessed for himself the copious weeping of tears from a large painting of Mary and Jesus. This man is not likely to lie or to get all excited and embellish what he saw. He is calm and rational in his words. What he saw is what many thousands of others witnessed over a period of months and then years later once again. Tears of oil or myrrh (the church refused to have it analyzed because they considered the tears of the Virgin to be sacred and had no interest in them being handled in anything but a sacred way – I agree) poured down from the Virgin’s eyes many, many, many times. A hoax? Sure. Why then repeat it on scores of occasions for many years if one did not want the hoax uncovered? No. It is a miracle. That word everyone wants to laugh away at. Sorry. God does not need to listen to what the world demands. He does as He pleases. To the faithful, it bolsters their faith. To the skeptic, a direct challenge to their senses.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
http://ocl.org/rouman-a-dr-who-believes-in-miracles/
Medical Doctor’s eye witness to WEEPING ICON IN CHICAGO
Dr. Rouman, anesthesiologist --- “What I personally observed in that little church in Chicago was not an illusion. It was not a matter of whether there were a few tears that had wetted an icon. There was material enough streaming from the Virgin’s eyes to have been collected and used to anoint hundreds of persons over several months’ time. As for skeptics, there were obviously some. To them, all I can say is that those who need tidy and finite answers to metaphysical questions or inexplicable religious phenomena will not be satisfied until such time they have had a religious experience of their own. Only then will the need for explanations be put aside.”
Rouman: a Dr. Who Believes in Miracles
August 21, 2015 Source: The National Herald BY CONSTANTINOS E. SCAROS
HARTFORD, CT – The National Herald’s recent article “Greek-Americans and Miracles over the Decades” (Aug. 8) prompted Dr. James Rouman, a retired anesthesiologist and the author of two novels, to share is own firsthand account of a miracle that occurred almost 30 years ago, yet remains fresh in his mind and left a profound effect on him.
“I was attending a medical meeting at an O’Hare Airport Hotel in March 1987,” Dr. Rouman told TNH, “when I learned of a tearing (weeping) icon at an obscure Albanian Orthodox Church in Chicago, and decided to see for myself what the fuss reported in the newspapers and on television was all about.
“Arriving at the church, I saw a line of people waiting to enter the building in front of which several tour busses were parked,” he continued. “For over four months, more than a quarter million people from as far away as Ceylon, Sri Lanka, England, Rome, and Egypt had made the pilgrimage to see what for many was believed to be a miracle.
“On the afternoon of my visit, a church official remarked that the icon was weeping more than usual, and that the amount of material coming from the eyes of the Virgin Mary was sufficient to permit those present to be anointed if they so desired. Soon it would be my turn to witness the unforgettable. Approaching the icon, I recognized it to be a painting on canvas over wood, standing about five feet tall, three feet wide, and in colors primarily of red and gold. One could see that the icon positioned on the iconostasis was in no way supported from behind or touching anything other than the screen, itself, of which it was a part. As I stood before the icon, I saw a liquid substance falling directly from the pupils of the Virgin Mary’s eyes, over her face and clothing, reaching finally to the bottom of the icon.
“There the exudate was carefully collected, placed in a small silver bowl and taken to several priests, who while uttering words of blessing and prayer, anointed those who came forward. At that moment I knew I was witnessing not just a religious phenomenon, but an awesome and miraculous event unlike anything I could have ever imagined. And although I stood in wonder, I felt transformed by the experience as the tears were placed on my forehead.”
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The New York Times reports on the weeping painting in the Chicago Church
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/22/us/weeping-virgin-icon-draws-throngs-to-chicago.html
Another article on the painting and a web site with numerous weepings
http://www.visionsofjesuschrist.com/weeping48.htm
Brief summaries of numerous documented weeping images of Mary and Jesus
http://miracles.mcn.org/iconsarchive.html
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