Pope Pius XII defined the Assumption of Mary into Heaven, body and soul as a Dogma of Faith on the 1st of November 1950. This is part of what he said “We pronounce, declare and definite it to be a divinely revealed dogma that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever- virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory”.
This dogma had been a common belief in the Catholic church and since the sixth centuries homilies had been written affirming that belief. The Feast had been celebrated from the fifth and sixth centuries.
St Hildegard von Bingen, Polymath and Doctor of the Church and an 11th century nun said the following about Mary,
“She is so bright and glorious that you cannot look at her face or her garments for the splendour with which she shines. For she is terrible with the terror of the avenging lightning and gentle with the goodness of the bright sun and both her terror and brightness are incomprehensible to humans. But she is with everyone and in everyone and so beautiful is her secret that no person can know the sweetness with which she sustains people and spares them in inscrutable mercy”.
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