“The belief in the corporeal assumption of Mary is founded on the apocryphal treatise De Obitu S. Dominae, bearing the name of St. John, which belongs however to the fourth or fifth century. It is also found in the book De Transitu Virginis, falsely ascribed to St. Melito of Sardis, and in a spurious letter attributed to St. Denis the Areopagite.”
“Fourth or fifth century”. And the writings considered therein genuine are from the seventh and eighth centuries.
“apocryphal, falsely ascribed. spurious” that's the basis for belief in the assumption of Mary!
Hmmmmmmm
Wellllllllllllll I SUPPOSE
that’s slightly better than
the magicsterical reading of their tea leaves from their afternoon tea.