Case file · Apparition / miracle
The weeping icon of Nicula
An icon of the Virgin painted in 1681 for the monastery of Nicula in Transylvania was reported by Austrian officers to have shed tears between 15 February and 12 March 1699.
1699 CE · 47.01, 23.93 · status: account
The account
The governor of Transylvania later moved the icon to his castle and then to Cluj, and a copy stayed at Nicula. The monastery is still one of Romania's great pilgrimages on 15 August.
The sceptical view
The report records what witnesses believed they saw; no physical examination of the 'tears' survives.