The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Feast of the Assumption is a Very old Feast of the Church  Celebrated Universally by the Sixth Century. Celebrated every Year on August 14  the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Commemorates the Death of Mary & her Bodily Assumption into Heaven  Before her Body Could Begin to Decay...a Foretaste of Our Own Bodily Resurrection at the End of Time.The Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary; The Assumption of Mary Into Heaven:: The Dormition of the Theotokos:: The Falling Asleep of the Blessed Virgin Mary Because it Signifies the Blessed Virgin's Passing into Eternal Life  it is the Most Important of all Marian Feasts & a Holy Day of Obligation. The Feast was Originally Celebrated in the East  Where it is known as the Feast of the Dormition  a Word which Means 'The Falling Asleep.' The Earliest Printed Reference to the Belief that Mary's Body was Assumed Into Heaven Dates from the Fourth Century  in a Document Entitled 'The Falling Asleep of the Holy Mother of God.' The Document is Written in the Voice of the Apostle John  to Whom Christ on the Cross had Entrusted the Care of His mother  & recounts the death  laying in the tomb  & assumption of the Blessed Virgin. Tradition Variously places Mary's Death at Jerusalem or at Ephesus  where John was Living.