Wonder working icons of Eastern Catholicism

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Does anyone know of any wonder working icons within Eastern Catholicism that did not originate until after the reunion of the particular EC Church? I ask because I have been blessed enough to visit and venerate a wonder working icon twice in my local EO Churches, and, God willing, I will be able to visit and venerate a 2nd wonder working icon in 2012, but I have not heard of any EC-specific wonder working icons. I did a quick Google search and came up empty as well.
 
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Does anyone know of any wonder working icons within Eastern Catholicism that did not originate until after the reunion of the particular EC Church? I ask because I have been blessed enough to visit and venerate a wonder working icon twice in my local EO Churches, and, God willing, I will be able to visit and venerate a 2nd wonder working icon in 2012, but I have not heard of any EC-specific wonder working icons. I did a quick Google search and came up empty as well.
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An interesting question and I’ve studied miracle-working Icons for some years now. The problem is that a number of them seem to go back and forth in terms of Eastern Catholic-Orthodox ownership.

There are also Roman Catholic miraculous icons that are also venerated by EC’s and Orthodox. If an Eastern icon is highly honoured by EC’s and RC’s, its “pedigree” will often take it back to Constantinople etc.

Also, “reunion” is a word that wouldn’t normally be used today. And I agree that it shouldn’t be.

Reunited with Rome? On what basis? That of the first millennium? It would not be a “reunion” since Rome has developed its ecclesiology and theology that goes beyond what the common faith of the united Church of the first millennium was.

And Eastern miraculous icons are venerated by Catholics and vice-versa.

The Pochaiv icon was taken over by Greek-Catholics and was then crowned by Rome. Even the Orthodox saint associated with it, St Job of Pochaiv, was slated for canonization by Rome . . . Until the 1830’s when the Pochaiv monastery reverted back to Orthodoxy and the canonization process was dropped. And then later, the icon of Pochaiv itself was dropped from the Greek-Catholic calendar . . .

Happily, politics have no influence over such.

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The first one to comes to my mind is Mariapocs. That icon was in a Greek-Catholic parish church in Hungary at the time the miracles were happening. The Austrian Emperor had the icon moved to the RC Cathedral in Vienna - after which the miracles stopped.
 
Symeon said:
The first one to comes to my mind is Mariapocs. That icon was in a Greek-Catholic parish church in Hungary at the time the miracles were happening. The Austrian Emperor had the icon moved to the RC Cathedral in Vienna - after which the miracles stopped.
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I had never heard of this icon - so I looked it up on Wikipedia. I know, that’s not the most reliable site, but it does state on there that a copy was sent back to the GC Church in Hungary and that the copy is now weeping and working miracles.
 
Alexander_Roman said:
There are also Roman Catholic miraculous icons that are also venerated by EC’s and Orthodox.
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Do you have any examples of current RC miraculous icons that are venerated in RC, EC, and EO Churches? I’ve been unable to locate any.
 
There is the Soufanieh Miraculous Icon that has been “shared” by the Orthodox and Catholics. You can find more information about it here.

Peace and God bless!
 
BusterMartin said:
Do you have any examples of current RC miraculous icons that are venerated in RC, EC, and EO Churches? I’ve been unable to locate any.
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In Ukraine, there is the miraculous icon of Berdychev which is actually a type of Our Lady of thhe Scapular of Mt Carmel. It is venerated by all.

Also, Our Lady of Letichev, celebrated on July 6 (established by Bl. Pope John Paul II) is an RC icon honoured by all. The “Pidkaminska” icon is another.

The more famous is the icon of Our Lady of Pochaiv, crowned by Rome itself, venerated by RC’s, EC’s and, of course, the Orthodox. Also, the icons of the Mother of God of the Kyivan Caves Lavra (all five of them). Our Lady of Zhirovits is another example. Also, Our Lady of Hoshiv. An ancient pilgrimage site, there were miraculous appearances of the Mother of God twenty years ago there - even the ROC served prayer services at the site.

Alex
 
BusterMartin said:
Do you have any examples of current RC miraculous icons that are venerated in RC, EC, and EO Churches? I’ve been unable to locate any.
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There are two icons that come to my mind:
  1. the icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help enshrined in the Church of Saint Alphonsus in Rome, and
  2. the icon of Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn (aka Our Lady of Mercy) housed in the Gate of Dawn chapel in Vilnius, Lithuania
 
Alexander_Roman said:
The ROC, however, has stated that this is not the original, but a copy . . .
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Given the huge amount of money Fr. Karl raised to buy it back from a private collector that’s unfortunate. But in those days when he was trying to rescue it I don’t know how easy it was to authenticate such things. And of course it went thru a whole series of hands after going from our temple to the Archbishop here in the late 70s before landing with the MP in 2004, so any number of opportunities for something to happen. And I suppose there are many copies which also prove to be wonder-working 🙂
 
5Loaves said:
Given the huge amount of money Fr. Karl raised to buy it back from a private collector that’s unfortunate. But in those days when he was trying to rescue it I don’t know how easy it was to authenticate such things. And of course it went thru a whole series of hands after going from our temple to the Archbishop here in the late 70s before landing with the MP in 2004, so any number of opportunities for something to happen. And I suppose there are many copies which also prove to be wonder-working 🙂
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It certainly is a wonder-working icon as attested to by the rizza that covers it.
The World Apostolate of Fatima (aka the Blue Army) just came out this month with a video on that particular icon of Our Lady of Kazan.

Here is the trailer: youtube.com/user/TheWAFUSA#p/a/u/0/JR4CuqrQqlM

Here is where you can purchase it: giftshop.wafusa.org/browse.cfm/4,1391.html
 
Alexander_Roman said:
The Pochaiv icon was taken over by Greek-Catholics and was then crowned by Rome. Even the Orthodox saint associated with it, St Job of Pochaiv, was slated for canonization by Rome . . . Until the 1830’s when the Pochaiv monastery reverted back to Orthodoxy and the canonization process was dropped. And then later, the icon of Pochaiv itself was dropped from the Greek-Catholic calendar . . .
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I have read from two sources, including from this blog, ruskij-sion.blogspot.com/2009/08/copy-of-copy.html, that the Basilians took the original icon of Our Lady of Pochayiv with them when they were forced to leave in 1831 and the icon is now kept in the Basilian monastery in Warsaw.
 
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