Mariapocs

Mariapocs is a small town in Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg county, inside the Northern Great Plain place of jap Hungary. It lies close to Nyiregyhaza. It is an important location for pilgrimage. It has a Byzantine Catholic church, which homes the Weeping Madonna, an substantial ornate iconostasis that now takes satisfaction of place above the altar. This icon is not the authentic, but an 18th-century copy. The unique one is kept in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. Before the quit of the 17th century Pocs simplest obtained mention within the written resources some instances.

The first reference turned into in a report from 1280 that mentions a place known as “Polch,” over which the participants of the Hont-Pazmány family had been disputing. During the fourteenth century, the Gutkeled family bought Pouch, or Powch. Later, the Bathory family received the village, and it have become part of the Ecsed belongings. While the populace was Hungarian all through the Middle Ages, starting with the center of the seventeenth century a part of the Ruthenians, spreading South from the Northeastern counties, inclusive of Zemplen, Saros, Ung, additionally settled at Pocs.