Assumption
See also: Assumption (homonymy)
The Assomption is a catholic dogma according to which, at the end of its terrestrial life, Marie was “high body and heart” with the sky. It is also the name of the catholic festival celebrating this event. The term comes from the Latin assumptio which means “to take, to remove, to assume”. These doctrines, or belief is not reported in the Books of the Bible, which are regarded as inspired by God by all the Christian medium.
So the Protestant do not subscribe to it.
The orthodoxe Churches, as for them, recognize, but implicitly, this point of faith, and speak about “Dormition” of the Virgin.
History
According to the Tradition the most spread, the place of the Assumption was Éphèse, in the house of the apostle Jean, to whom it Christ, on the cross, entrusted Marie. Another tradition, much less sure, speaks about Jerusalem.
Definition
November 1st 1950, this point of faith is defined in the form of dogma by the apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus of the pope Pie XII, after maturation in the memory of the Church lasting almost 20 centuries. The dogmatic Constitution Lumen gentium (November 21st 1964) of the 2nd council of the Vatican will also declare:
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“Finally the immaculate Virgin, preserved by God of very reached original fault, having achieved the course of its terrestrial life, was high body and heart with the glory of the sky, and exaltée by the Lord like the Queen of the universe, to be thus more entirely in conformity with his/her Son, Seigneur of the lords, victorious of the sin and death. ”
The Assumption is celebrated the August 15th. It had been instituted national festival in France by the king Louis XIII and remained until the French revolution. Napoleon i will turn of August 15th the Napoleon Saint who will become again the feast of the Assumption to the Restauration. The Republic will make some one bank holiday. This event is always the national festival of the Acadiens.
In France, it remains the annual festival in certain particularly catholic villages. It became particular extensive these last years, in particular with Audresselles (Pas-de-Calais) where the procession which is completed by a blessing of the sea, attracts the crowd come from all the Nord-Pas-de-Calais area. The feast of the Assumption is also the most important day of the year with Lourdes.
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