The Maria Pötsch Icon - also called the "Star of the East" - is a Byzantine style icon of St. Mary with the child Jesus.

The picture shows the Virgin Mary pointing to the child (signifying "He is the way") and the child holding a three-stemmed rose (symbolizing the Holy Trinity) and wearing a prescient cross from his neck. The 50 x 70 cm icon was commissioned in 1676 from painter István Papp by László Csigri upon his release as a prisoner of war from the Turks who were invading Hungary at the time. As Csigri was unable to pay the 6-forint fee the icon was bought by Lőrinc Hurta who donated it to the church of Pócs.

The icon takes its name from the Hungarian Byzantine Catholic shrine of Máriapócs (pronounced Poach), from where it was transferred to Vienna. After two miraculous incidents in 1696 with the mother in the picture shedding real tears, Emperor Leopold I ordered it to be brought to St. Stephen's Cathedral, where it would be safe from the Muslim armies that still controlled much of Hungary. The icon arrived to Vienna after a triumphal five-month journey in 1697.