
Assumption, August 15, 2020
Unlike her son, Jesus, Mary will not suffer the calvary of the crucifixion, it will be totally different. Caravaggio, for example, depicts her last hours in a sepulchral manner in "The Death of the Virgin" exhibited in the Louvre.At the hour of her death, John Paul II specifies, Mary is transported, glorified "body and soul" before the Lord: this is the dogma of the Assumption, in opposition to certain apocryphal traditions where she did not die because she is preserved from the original sin by the grace...
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