Máriapócs
Máriapócs | |
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Town | |
Church in Máriapócs | |
| Coordinates: 47°53′N 22°02′E / 47.883°N 22.033°E | |
| Country | Hungary |
| County | Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg |
| Area | |
• Total | 22.09 km2 (8.53 sq mi) |
| Population (2015) | |
• Total | 2,153 |
| • Density | 97/km2 (250/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 4326 |
| Area code | 42 |
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.