Paperback: From its inception as a Christian nation over a thousand years ago, Hungary has had a fervent devotion to Mary, the Mother of God.
A publication which appeared towards the end of the second millennium lists 200 Marian shrines in Hungary. There are records of Marian paintings weeping tears in Hungary as early as 1663.
This book, Our Mother's Tears: Ten Weeping Madonnas In Historic Hungary (2005) documents some of these miraculous weeping and holy sweating Madonnas. Authenticated by Church authorities and early religious tradition of Hungary, this book captures with coloured illustration the mystery of Mary’s compassion with her Divine Son.
Inspiring and yet informative, this book would be a worthy addition to Catholic family libraries.
About the author: Erika Papp Faber was born in Hungary, and left with her parents when the Russians and Germans were fighting around Budapest. After surviving the post-war years in Germany, they came to the US in 1949, thanks to Papp’s American aunt and uncle who sponsored the family. Papp attended Georgetown University, and earned a degree in Foreign Service. For fourteen years, she edited a Catholic missiology magazine. Now she works as a freelance writer, and has written innumerable articles on Hungarian and religious topics.
She is also a translator and has compiled an anthology of Hungarian poetry, which she has translated, and which awaits a publisher. She has alos written a booklet of reflections on the Rosary, which awaits a publisher. In addition to Hungarian, Erika Papp Faber has translated articles from German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
Her book Our Mother’s Tears: Ten Weeping Madonnas in Historic Hungary was published by the Franciscans of the Immaculate in 2006. She has also published numerous articles on Hungarian and religious subjects, both in English and Hungarian. Previous booklets include Keeping our Eyes Fixed on HIM: Reflections on Gospel Events By A Lay Catholic; God Sustains Widows: A Scriptural View; Who Wants To Be An Artichoke? (poems); and A Csipkebokorból (Hungarian poems).
Papp married a wonderful Hungarian, Oscar Faber, but is now a widow, living in Connecticut.
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