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On the left (towards the west) there is the chapel of Saint Joseph, Mary's husband, initially built as the tomb of two other female relatives of Baldwin II. [8] At the bottom of the staircase, on the eastern side of the church, there is the edicule that contains Mary's tomb. [8] There are also altars of the Greeks and Armenians in the east apse.
Location of Tomb: Article: Mary: Mother of Jesus: Believed to be in the Kidron Valley at the foot of the Mount of Olives or at Ephesus. (Catholic and Orthodox traditions profess that her body was taken into Heaven.) Mary's Tomb, House of the Virgin Mary: Saint Peter: Apostle, first Bishop of Rome and co-founder of the Christian church
The House of the Virgin Mary (Turkish: Meryemana Evi or Meryem Ana Evi, "Mother Mary's House") is a Catholic shrine located on Mt. Koressos (Turkish: Bülbüldağı, "Mount Nightingale") in the vicinity of Ephesus, 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) from Selçuk in Turkey. [1]
The Council of Ephesus was long thought to have been held at a church in Ephesus which had been dedicated to Mary about a hundred years before. [ 278 ] [ 279 ] [ 280 ] Though, recent archeological surveys indicate that St. Mary's Church in Ephesus did not exist at the time of the Council or, at least, the building was not dedicated to Mary ...
Twelfth-century façade of Mary's Tomb in the garden of Gethsemane, in Jerusalem. The Basilica of the Annunciation, in Nazareth. The Abbey of the Dormition, also known as Church of the Dormition of Our Lady on Mount Zion, in Jerusalem. The Church of the Tomb of the Virgin Mary in the garden of Gethsemane, in Jerusalem
The place is believed Mother Mary's first appearance in the world. St. Thomas Church, Thumpoly Alleppey Kerala. (Marian Pilgrimage Shrine of Alappuzha ). St. Mary's Forane Church, Bharananganam, Kerala. The place is blessed with the tomb of Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception, first religious sister Catholic saint of India.
The Dormition tradition is associated with various places, most notably with Jerusalem, which contains Mary's Tomb and the Basilica of the Dormition, and Ephesus, which contains the House of the Virgin Mary, and also with Constantinople where the Cincture of the Theotokos was enshrined from the 5th through 14th centuries.
The chapel was commissioned by the Sisters of Loretto for their girls' school, Loretto Academy, in 1873. Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy had brought in two French architects, Antoine Mouly and his son Projectus, to work on the St. Francis Cathedral project, and suggested that the Sisters could make use of their services on the side to build a much-needed chapel for the academy. [4]