The principal feast of the Blessed Virgin ... The belief in the corporeal assumption of Mary is founded on the apocryphal treatise De Obitu S. Dominae, bearing the name of St. John, which belongs however to the fourth or fifth century.
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Apocryphal Works on the Assumption of Mary ... As the all-holy glorious mother of God and ever-virgin Mary, as was her wont, was going to the holy tomb of our Lord to burn incense, and bending her holy knees, she was importunate that Christ our God who had been born of her should return to her.
www.newadvent.org/fathers/0832.htm
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The Assumption of Mary is a belief held by Christians of the Catholic Church as well as some Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Anglicans, that the Virgin Mary, at the end of her life, was phys...
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Mary in Christian Tradition ... The Assumption of Mary (August 15 ... Like the mystery of her Immaculate Conception, the Assumption of Mary is significant for all humanity, since she anticipates our resurrection with Christ in glory.
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Father Clifford Stevens' article on the origins of the Feast of the Assumption. ... Soon the name was changed to the "Assumption of Mary," since there was more to the feast than her dying. It also proclaimed that she had been taken up, body and soul, into heaven.
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The Assumption of Mary ... wherefrom the Apostles concluded that the body was taken up to heaven." In all, the Patristic Fathers defended the Assumption on two counts: Since Mary was sinless and a perpetual virgin, she could not suffer bodily deterioration, the result of Original Sin, after her death.
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; Solemnity; August 15th;; Mateo Cerezo; Assumption of Mary; Oil on canvas, 237 x 169 cm; Museo del Prado, Madrid; ... The idea of the assumption of Mary into heaven after her death is first expressed in narratives of the fifth and sixth centuries.
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For Roman Catholic Christians, the belief in the Assumption of Mary flows immediately from the belief in her Immaculate Conception. Catholic Christians believe that if Mary was preserved from sin by the free gift of God, she would not be bound to experience the consequences of sin--death--in the same way we do.
www.catholicapologetics.org/ap080500.htm
Feast of the Assumption of Mary ... An ancient and beautiful legend about the Assumption of Mary tells the story this way: When Our Lady felt her time on earth coming to an end, she sent word to all the Apostles. They were out preaching the Good News of her Son 'to all the corners of the world' as Jesus had commanded them.
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A discussion on the Assumption of Mary. A source of information for deeper understanding of religious subjects. ... In Roman Catholic doctrine, the Assumption means that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was taken (assumed) bodily into heavenly glory when she died. In the Orthodox church, the koimesis, or dormition ("falling...
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