Today, the renewed discussion about the location of the tomb of Mary indicates interest about Mary's Assumption into heaven. By the end of the Middle Ages, belief in Mary's Assumption into heaven was ...

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 ...

On Aug. 15, Catholics around the world mark the solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, commemorating the end of her earthly life and assumption into heaven. But while the feast day is a relatively ...

And while the Church has no official stance on whether Mary died ... she was brought into heaven, and she still mothers us. We celebrated this on the Solemnity of the Assumption, but eight days ...

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

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 fact, it celebrates the Assumption of Mary into Heaven, one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. Proclaimed by Pius XII on November 1, 1950, the Assumption dogma has its origins in ...

The mystery play of Elche is a sacred musical drama of the death, the passage into heaven (known as the Assumption) and the crowning of the Virgin Mary. Since the mid-fifteenth century it has been ...

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 ...

The Feast of the Assumption is a Catholic celebration of the Virgin Mary’s assumption into heaven. People from all over the country come to Cleveland take part in this event. Back to school ...

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

The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary ... Assumption and connect the two. Pius XII beautifully explained with examples how the Blessed Virgin Mary was considered to have the title of Queen of ...