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Pope Pius XII expressed in his encyclical Munificentissimus Deus the hope that the belief in the bodily assumption of the virgin Mary into heaven "will make our belief in our own resurrection stronger and render it more effective", [4] while the Catechism of the Catholic Church adds: "The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin is a singular ...
Roman Catholic teaching holds that Mary was "assumed" into heaven in bodily form, the Assumption; the question of whether or not Mary actually underwent physical death remains open in the Catholic view. On 25 June 1997 Pope John Paul II said that Mary experienced natural death prior to her assumption into Heaven. [4]
Pope Pius XII's previous encyclical Deiparae Virginis Mariae (1 May 1946) to all Catholic bishops stated that for a long time past, numerous petitions had been received from cardinals, patriarchs, archbishops, bishops, priests, religious of both sexes, associations, universities and innumerable private persons, all begging that the bodily Assumption into heaven of the Blessed Virgin should be ...
The Catholic Church teaches that, at the end of her natural life, she was assumed into heaven, body and soul (Assumption of Mary) Venerated in: Catholic Church: Canonized: Pre-Congregation: Major shrine: Santa Maria Maggiore, others (see Shrines to the Virgin Mary) Feast: See Marian feast days: Attributes
The doctrine is based on sacred tradition that Mary was bodily assumed into heaven. For centuries before that, the assumption was celebrated in art and in the Church's liturgy. The proclamation's wording does not state if Mary suffered bodily death before being assumed into heaven; this is left open to individual belief. [15]
The Assumption of the Virgin by Bernardo Daddi, c. 1337–1339 [17] The Assumption of the Virgin with St. Thomas and Two Donors (Ser Palamedes and his Son Matthew) by Andrea di Bartolo, c. 1390s [18] The Dormition and the Assumption of the Virgin by Fra Angelico, 1424–1434 [19] Assumption of the Virgin by Michaelangelo di Pietro Membrini, c ...
The four Catholic dogmas regarding Mary are: her status as Theotokos, or Mother of God; her perpetual virginity; the Immaculate Conception; and her bodily Assumption into Heaven. [123] [124] [125] The Blessed Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus has a more central role in Roman Catholic teachings and beliefs than in any other major Christian group.
Assumption: The belief that the Virgin Mary was assumed body and soul into heaven upon completing the course of her earthly life was declared a dogma in 1950 by Pope Pius XII in the apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus. The titles "Our Lady of Assumption" and "Queen Assumed Into Heaven" derive from this.