What Does Science Say?
For many people, the studies on “wonder-working" weeping icons are understood as purely religious field that lies beyond the scope of scientific research. However, in different years, several laboratories and groups of scientists conducted full-scale studies of samples of “miraculous" liquids obtained from cult objects of various faiths. These studies also included using of spectroscopy and chromatography methods. In this regard, science has provided modern tools for the study of any unidentifiable substance and thereby allowed an impartial study of the phenomenon of myrrh-streaming icons. The presented article contains the results of a detailed biochemical study of a number of samples of streamed myrrh taken from icons.