Máriapócs

Máriapócs
Town
Church in Máriapócs
Máriapócs
Coordinates: 47°53′N 22°02′E / 47.883°N 22.033°E / 47.883; 22.033
Country Hungary
CountySzabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
Area
  Total
22.09 km2 (8.53 sq mi)
Population
 (2015)
  Total
2,153
  Density97/km2 (250/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
4326
Area code42

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.