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Assumption of Mary

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Noun1.Assumption of MaryAssumption of Mary - celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox Church
August 15, Assumption
holy day of obligation - a day when Catholics must attend Mass and refrain from servile work, and Episcopalians must take Communion
Aug, August - the month following July and preceding September


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Father Don Wolfe, pastor of Assumption of Mary Church in Duncan, Oklahoma, agrees.
Confession: a shadow of its former self? by LaReau, Renee M. / U.S. Catholic
The assumption of Mary into heaven was declared a dogma in 1950, after waiting 1200 years since the Synod of Salzburg appointed it a feast in 800.
Two Marian dogmas defend life by de Valk, Alphonse / Catholic Insight
The Assumption of Mary is treated in the next to last chapter, locus classicus for the idea of spiritual ascent to bodily delight in heavenly experience.
Heaven and the Flesh: Imagery of Desire from the Renaissance to the ... by Turner, A. Richard / Renaissance Quarterly
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