Source: Chicago Tribune
September 9, 2019
The Rev. Nicholas Jonas says he was in disbelief when he saw tears streaming down the face of a painting of Mary holding the child Jesus in his chapel.
“When these things happen, I feel like a little kid when first going into a candy factory, and you’re just in awe,” said Jonas, the presiding priest at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 6041 W. Diversey Ave. in the Belmont Central neighborhood.
Jonas said he was sitting in his office Sunday morning when a church employee burst into his office and informed him of the “weeping Virgin.”
Jonas hurried to the altar in the church sanctuary where the painting stands amid other holy paintings.
“It’s common throughout the Orthodox church to see a phenomena like that … but to have it personally was very overwhelming,” Jonas said.
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