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The Carpathian Basin of Europe's Byzantine Catholic (formerly termed "Greek" Catholic) population was impoverished, but their devotion to the Most Holy Mother of God, the Thalia, was a priceless spiritual resource. And via her miraculous icons, the most well-known of which being the Weeping Icon of Máriapócs in Hungary, they expressed her maternal concern for her underprivileged people. On Sunday, November 4, 1696, during the Divine Liturgy, the faithful in the poor village church of Pócs, in the middle of the 17th century, on the northeastern plains of Hungary, which were later destroyed and abandoned by the Turks, noticed that the icon of the Most Holy Thalia on the iconostasis was weeping. The Blessed Mother continued to cry throughout the following days until Dec. 8, 1696, when it eventually ended.