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What Happened to the Virgin Mary After Pentecost? [Catholic/Orthodox Caucus)
http://www.patheos.com ^ | March 2, 2014 | Thomas L. McDonald

Posted on 03/03/2014 7:20:40 PM PST by NKP_Vet

What do we really know about the life of Mary beyond what the Bible tells us? Scripture gives us only glimpses of the Blessed Mother before she vanishes from history, only to reappear in the Book of Revelation as the “woman clothed in the sun” (Revelation 12:1-6).

We have the last words she speaks, resonating down the through the ages as a message to all who follow: “Do whatever he tells you” (John 2:1-12). The Wedding at Cana is, in fact, the only place in Scripture where Mary addresses the adult Jesus directly.

We have her appearance at the foot of the cross with St. John, in which she is commended to the care of the Beloved Disciple:

But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home. (John 19:25–27)

She appears one final time in Acts 1:14, where we are told she was with the twelve in Jerusalem, along with the other women and the brethren of Jesus, devoted to prayer.

And then she is gone from the canonical scripture and from history.

Or is she?

As Catholics, we know that the faith is not merely contained in the Scripture but also in the Tradition: the unwritten wisdom found in the Church herself. Does the tradition tell us anything of her later years?

It certainly does.

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