[Elsie]

...the Church’s dogma of Mary’s Assumption.

When was this carved in stone?

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Assumption of Mary

The Assumption of Mary is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church, and holds that the Virgin Mary "having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory". The dogma was defined by Pope Pius XII on 1 November 1950, in the apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus. The equivalent belief in the Eastern Orthodox Church is the Dormition of the Mother of God or "the Falling Asleep of the Mother of God".Wikipedia

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The Dogma of the Assumption of Mary - Just for Catholics

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The Dogma of the Assumption of Mary. In the Eastern Church, the dormition ("falling asleep") of Mary began to be commemorated in the 6th century. The observance gradually spread to the West, where it became known as the feast of the Assumption. By the 13th century most Catholic theologians accepted the belief of the Assumption.

[Cronos]

It was carved in stone far earlier than your 19th century modernist philosophy of the pre tribulation rapture.

1800 years earlier

Recently discovered Syriac fragments of stories about the Assumption of Mary have been dated as early as the third century. And there are undoubtedly more manuscripts to be found. It must be remembered that when we are talking about these “Transitus stories,” we are not only talking about ancient manuscripts and fragments of manuscripts, but we are talking also about two different “families” of manuscripts written in nine languages. They all agree on Mary’s Assumption and they presuppose that the story was already widely known.