The dogma of the Assumption of Mary — also called the ... the Roman emperor Marcian requested the body of Mary, mother of God, at the Council of Chalcedon in 451. St. Juvenal, who was bishop ...

Roman Catholics believe the doctrine of the Assumption, which teaches that at the end of her life, Mary, the mother of Christ, was taken body and soul (i.e. both physically and spiritually ...

In defining the dogma of the Assumption, Pope Pius XII declares “that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and ...

the Assumption was only enshrined in Catholic dogma in 1950. Pope Pius XII’s apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus decreed that “the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having ...

Today is Assumption Day, a major Christian holiday ... Notable ones are Nicki Minaj and Lana Del Rey dressing up as the Mother Mary figure – Minaj during a maternity photo shoot courtesy of ...

Although the bodily assumption of Mary is not explicitly written in Scripture ... indicating that she is the mother of the Messiah and has the “moon under her feet and on her head a crown ...

The text, which was legally binding, established the yearly observance of the Assumption, a Catholic tradition celebrating Mary's bodily ... to a son and a sorrowful mother at the foot of the ...

Lauded in the world’s two largest religions as the mother of God’s Chosen One—for Muslims a great prophet and for Christians ...

The St Mary’s Syro Malabar community will this Sunday host the annual Assumption of Mother Mary celebrations, bringing the colour, music and traditional foods of the community’s Indian roots ...