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To: al_c
Yall know where Mary is? I mean physically, where she was buried/tombed?
47,273 posted on 04/18/2003 8:27:42 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: CindyDawg
Sacred tradition holds that she was assumed into heaven.
47,274 posted on 04/18/2003 8:38:31 AM PDT by al_c
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To: CindyDawg
"Yall know where Mary is? I mean physically, where she was buried/tombed?"

Interestingly, there is a tomb (I can't recall where, right off the top of my head) which ancient tradition holds to be the tomb of Mary. It's empty.

Virtually all the earliest writings we have state Mary was assumed into heaven, body and soul. Of course, if this is true, then Mary becomes a much more important biblical personage than Protestant theology would credit. Further, both the Immaculate Conception and her Perpetual Virginity serve as underpinnings, theologically, for the dogma of the Assumption.

But it is strange, isn't it? The Mother of Our Lord, and no one seems to know where her remains are.

47,277 posted on 04/18/2003 9:52:17 AM PDT by AlguyA (I'm giving up tag lines for Lent.)
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