St. Alphonsus de Liguori is one among the saints who writes that Mary died for sheer longing and love of the Savior. Below is a quotation from his seventh discourse, "The Assumption of Mary ... thus ...

In 1950, Pope Pius XII defined Mary's Assumption into heaven as a dogma of Roman Catholicism: "the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was ...

Mary is a magnet for young and old. On August 12, during a Mass celebrating her assumption into heaven, Roman Catholic youths guard a life-size figure in Kalwaria Pacławska, Poland. The Feast of ...

In June 1981, six children aged 10 to 16 claimed that the Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hilltop near the town.

You have the same influence now in Heaven. Pray for us ... O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show ...

Founded in the 4th century, Sümela is a gravity-defying marvel, hanging nearly 1,000 feet over a wooded valley in Turkey, ...

The church of Panagia Kera near Agios Nikolaos on Crete contains the finest-preserved Byzantine frescoes on the Greek island ...

The religious belief that the body of Mary, mother of Christ, was “assumed” into heaven to be reunited with her soul is celebrated as Assumption Day in both the Catholic and Orthodox church.

A distinction needs to be made between Ascension and Assumption. Jesus Christ, Son of God and Risen Lord, ascended into heaven, a sign of divine power. Mary, on the contrary, was elevated or ...

Inside the tiny church, archaeologists found dramatic frescoes depicting heaven and hell ... on the Feast Day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, when the Archbishop of Constantinople conducted ...

Her irreplaceable role did not end when, “having completed the course of her earthly life,” she was assumed body and soul into heaven. Mary still bears Jesus to us. She is our Mother ...