thumb|166px|Greek Catholic pilgrimage church, St Michael Archangel in Máriapócs

300px|thumb|right|Aerial photography of the church

Máriapócs is a small town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. It lies near Nyíregyháza. Saint Michael the Archangel Greek Catholic Church is an important place for pilgrimage, housing a miraculous icon of the Mother of God, which wept twice. This icon is not the original, but an 18th-century copy. The original icon, which wept once, is kept in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.

Etymology

The "Pócs" in Máriapócs is a derivative of the Hungarian name Pál, meaning the name Paul. The prefix Mária was added in the 18th century in reference to the shrine to the Virgin Mary in the village.

Demographics

As of 2023, the village had a total population of 1888. As of 2022, the town was 91.1% Hungarian, 6.1% Gypsy, 3.1% Rusyn, and 1.8% of non-European origin. The remainder chose not to respond. The population was 44.9% Greek Catholic, and 16.9% Roman Catholic, and 6% Reformed.

See also

  • Hungarian Greek Catholic Church

References

;Sources

  • Tamás Véghseő – Szilveszter Terdik, "…you have foreseen all of my paths…": Byzantine Rite Catholics in Hungary, Strasbourg: Éditions Du Signe, 2012.
  • Official Site of the Sanctuary of Máriapócs
  • Official Site of the Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
  • The Shrine of Máriapócs – The Carpathian Connection
  • Our Lady of Mariapócs on "All About Mary" The University of Dayton's Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute (IMRI) is the world's largest repository of books, artwork and artifacts devoted to Mary, the mother of Christ, and a pontifical center of research and scholarship with a vast presence in cyberspace.