Did the Virgin Mary Die Before Her Assumption?
Answer: From the earliest Christian traditions surrounding the Assumption, the answer to the question of whether the Blessed Virgin died like all men do has been "yes." The Feast of the Assumption was first celebrated in the sixth century in the Christian East, where it was known as the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos (the Mother of God). To this day, among Eastern Christians, both Catholic and Orthodox, the traditions surrounding the Dormition are based on a fourth-century document called "The Account of St. John the Theologian of the Falling Asleep of the Holy Mother of God." (Dormition means "the falling asleep.")
Why is it that you don't even know what your church tells you to believe?
Some folks may have bad eyesight...
Could it be... (cue the alien guy) that they've been 'told' VARIOUS versions of the story??
Only what's told NOW is of any consequence.
We've all seen how the "is Peter the Rock?" quotes from Catholic Leaders gets almost totally ignored.