Dormition

The word dormition (in Greek kimisis ) is used, in the Christian vocabulary to indicate the death of the saints and the faithful piles, when it is not a violent death. Besides the word cemetery expresses the same idea of provisional sleep.

The Dormition of very Sainte Mother of God is often called Dormition quite simply because it is the dormition par excellence. The orthodoxe , kept this ancient denomination. They understand by this word the death of the Virgin Mary and her rise with the sky with its body.

In the Catholicism of today, the term Dormition indicates only the death of the Virgin. The belief of the rise in the sky with its body at the catholic bears the name of Assomption, but the orthodoxe criticize this term, which could let believe that the Virgin was removed with the sky of alive sound.

The word, come from the Latin dormitio , “sleep”, expresses the belief according to which the Virgin died without suffering, in a state of spiritual peace -   one sometimes also speaks about dormition for the Saint S died without martyrdom. The writer Joris-Karl Huysmans explains in his novel Oblat :

“The Virgin died, neither of old age, nor of disease; she was carried by the vehemence of the pure love; and its face was so calm, so radiant, if happy, that one called his demise the dormition. ”

As it was the case for the Assomption before 1950 in the Catholic church, the dormition is still not a dogma in the orthodoxe Églises, but it is regarded as irreligious person to deny it. This belief does not rest on any scripturaire basis. It is founded on writings apocryphal book S, like that of the Pseudo-Jean, On the death of Marie (IVe or 5th century). According to the tradition, the Virgin would have then been fifty-nine years old (that is to say eleven years after the crucifixion of Jesus) and would have been buried in the garden of Gethsémani, with Jerusalem.

The festival of Dormition is most important of the festivals of the Virgin Mary, and it is it which closes the orthodoxe liturgical year. As at the catholic , it takes place the August 15th: one allots the fixing of this date to the emperor Maurice, at the 6th century.

On the icon of Dormition of the very Holy Mother of God, it is Christ himself which, gone down from the sky, comes to seek the heart of his/her mother illustrated in the form of a emmailloté newborn of langes. On the images of the dormition of a saint, it is an angel which is in charge of this mission of psychopompe.

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