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Glory to Jesus Christ!

Has there ever been miracles such as this in the East? What kinds of miracles happen in the East that are similar to the West? Are there any miracles that are distinct and special only to the East that does not happen in the West?

I ask because I just finished watching this youtube video and got to wondering:



Kyrie eleison,

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I know several icons weep myrrh from their eyes. And there is something called the Illumination of faces that several eastern saints are said to have held. Where the holy spirit has burned so brightly in them, they were said to be shrouded in light.

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Originally Posted by Little Boy Lost
I know several icons weep myrrh from their eyes. And there is something called the Illumination of faces that several eastern saints are said to have held. Where the holy spirit has burned so brightly in them, they were said to be shrouded in light.

Interestingly, there is a story of Sts. Francis and Claire of Assisi meeting for conversation somewhere in the woods outside of Assisi. During their time speaking an praying together it was said that a great light could be seen coming from the woods where they were conversing. St. Dominic is also said to have had a visible halo and star that appeared shortly before his death, I believe. I know I've heard other similar stories involving Western saints, but I can't remember them off the top of my head right now. But it appears that the illumination of faces/the Holy Light/the physical Transfiguration are not purely Eastern phenomena.

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It was noticed by several eye-witnesses that when the humble Capuchin lay brother,the Lower Bavarian St. Konrad of Parzham (+1894; canonized 1934 as part of Pius XI's response to National Socialism) was praying before the miraculous statue of the Theotokos enshrined at Altoetting, sometimes radiant golden balls rose up out of his mouth, directed toward the sacred image.


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