Why Did She Cry? The Story of the Weeping Madonna. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Why Did She Cry? The Story of the Weeping Madonna

Why Did She Cry is the captivating and spiritually lifting true story of the weeping Madonna. During the1960 Lenten period, in the home of Pagona Catsounis of Island Park, New York, a divine sign was manifest. While praying before the icon of the Holy Mother St. Mary, she literally froze as she saw a tear welling on the eye of the lithograph print. Mrs. Catsounis immediately called Father George Papadeas, parish priest of St. Paul's Greek Orthodox Church. Faithful of all denominations made the pilgrimage to St. Paul's for a chance to see and venerate the Icon. Over thirty years later, Newsday proclaimed the weeping Madonna at St. Paul's as one of the most memorable events of the past fifty years.

In 1937, Fr. George Papadeas was a charter member of the newly formed Greek Orthodox Theological Seminary in Pomfret Center, Connecticut. He served as assistant priest of the Archdiocesan Cathedral in New York City for eight years and was then assigned to organize the first Greek Orthodox Parish in Long Island. Papadeas would go on to organize more parishes in America, as well as in Greece. Now at 90 years young, he continues his passion for his service to the Lord as the founding Pastor of the Greek Orthodox Mission in Ocala, Florida. He has compiled and translated three prayer books that are in use in the majority of Greek Orthodox churches in America, England, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.