What Happened to the Virgin Mary After Pentecost? [Catholic/Orthodox Caucus)

http://www.patheos.com ^ | March 2, 2014 | Thomas L. McDonald

[NKP_Vet]

Hail Mary, Full of Grace, The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of death.

Amen.

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[Salvation]

[Jvette]

I have never seen this account and to be honest, find it a little unbelievable. I will have to wait for part 2 before I comment with any specifics.

[Salvation]

[NKP_Vet]

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/godandthemachine/2014/03/whathappenedmary2/

[rwa265]

I have never seen this account and to be honest, find it a little unbelievable. I will have to wait for part 2 before I comment with any specifics.

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I have never seen this account, either. So I did some searching and found the following, which you may find interesting, or not.

Part 1 included a link to Part 2, which can be found here:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/godandthemachine/2014/03/whathappenedmary2/

Part 2 is a discussion of the various sources for the tradition of the Assumption in church history.

I did a search and found the document that is attributed to St. Melito in a Parish Bulletin, which can be found here:

http://www.rosarychurch.net/answers/ap082000.html

None of this is proof of the Assumption, nothing for certain is known. The New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia states that the knowledge we do have has been derived from Apostolic Tradition. Here is a link to that document:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02006b.htm

[Jvette]

thanks to both of you for the links. They were helpful in filling in some blanks.

My first reaction to the one by Merlito is to wonder why if the Apostles were witnesses to this, they never wrote of it. But, then too, I think they didn’t write very much about Mary in the Gospels and Epistles, so maybe that isn’t too surprising.

I had always thought, though I don’t know why, that she had lived for many years with the Apostle John and had probably outlived most of the Apostles and that was why we do not read about her death and Assumption from any of them.

These are interesting stories and I wouldn’t begin to hazard a guess as to which is true. It doesn’t matter to me as I fully believe she is together with her Son in heaven.

I guess like other things the Church teaches, it is a mystery and a matter of faith.