I find Miriam, whom you call Mary, to be the the most blessed virgin of all Israel and worthy of great respect, admiration, and brotherly love. It is wise not to speak a word against her. She is the mother of the Messiah by immaculate conception and she is with the LORD now. The Catholics finalized their dogma about her rather late and I really haven’t studied how that came about, perhaps Fatima brought it to some decision. I’m not very familiar with the particulars and I find no scriptural evidence to prove she was sinless or assumed into heaven but there are logical arguments for them and scriptural precedents (Enoch, Elijah,
Perhaps even Moses whose body was never found and who appeared with Elijah; surely Miriam was as important ?).
2. By writing that there was a gap, and failing to propose an alternate, you imply it failed to reproduce itself. I asked when you think it recovered, and by whose authority ?
Now now, take off with assurance I’ll still be on FR when you get back from your fruitless evidence search. Bring sandwiches!