![]() ![]() ![]() Teaching of the Assumption of Mary became widespread across the Christian world, having been celebrated as early as the 5th century and having been established in the East by Emperor Maurice around AD 600. This incident is depicted in many later paintings of the Assumption. In a later tradition, Mary drops her girdle down to the apostle from heaven as testament to the event. By the 7th century, a variation emerged, according to which one of the apostles, often identified as Thomas the Apostle, was not present at the death of Mary but his late arrival precipitates a reopening of Mary's tomb, which is found to be empty except for her grave clothes. The earliest traditions say that Mary's life ended in Jerusalem (see Tomb of the Virgin Mary). This is a much more recent and localized tradition. In some versions of the assumption narrative, the assumption is said to have taken place in Ephesus, in the House of the Virgin Mary. The word 'assumption' derives from the Latin word assūmptiō meaning "taking up". The equivalent belief (but not held as dogma) in the Eastern Orthodox Church is the Dormition of the Mother of God or the "Falling Asleep of the Mother of God". ![]() It leaves open the question of whether Mary died or whether she was raised to eternal life without bodily death. The declaration was built upon the 1854 dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, which declared that Mary was conceived free from original sin, and both have their foundation in the concept of Mary as the Mother of God. We proclaim and define it to be a dogma revealed by God that the immaculate Mother of God, Mary ever virgin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into the glory of heaven. Pope Pius XII defined it on 1 November 1950 in his apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus as follows: The Assumption of Mary is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. Memorial in Youghal, Ireland, to the promulgation of the dogma of the Assumption Sunday nearest to 15 August ( Armenian Apostolic Church). ![]()
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