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To: Gurn

From the 5th Century: The Feast of the Assumption of Mary was celebrated in Syria.

The same testimony is clear also in the Western Church (Gregory, Tours, 538-594).

847 by Leo IV

1950
Pope Pius XII, declared infallibly, ex cathedra: “Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul to heavenly glory.”


173 posted on 06/16/2009 1:23:58 PM PDT by franky8 (For the souls of the faithful departed.)
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To: franky8
So, hundreds of years after she walked the earth, somebody said she never died. And Pius, the Nazis' favorite Pope, had the final word.

Got it.

174 posted on 06/16/2009 1:34:20 PM PDT by Gurn (Remember Mountain Meadows.)
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