To: CynicalBear

The Feast of the Assumption was first celebrated in the sixth century in the Christian East...

Some folks may have bad eyesight...

265 posted on 01/20/2015 4:18:42 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: Elsie

It's actually "The Feast of the Dormition" which means ..... gasp....Death.

They were commemorating the...gasp...Death of Mary.

284 posted on 01/20/2015 5:46:30 AM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)

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