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:“Mary had died in the presence of the apostles; but her tomb, when opened later ... was found empty and so the apostles concluded that the body was taken up into heaven.”

:“Mary had died in the presence of the apostles; but her tomb, when opened later ... was found empty and so the apostles concluded that the body was taken up into heaven.”

There has been no universal agreement on whether she actually died.<ref>[https://www.thoughtco.com/virgin-mary-die-before-her-assumption-542100 Did Virgin Mary Die Before Assumption? by Scott P. Richert (thoughtco.com)]</ref> The dogma proclaimed by Pope Pius XIII in 1950 in accordance with the ancient apostolic Christian tradition in the East and the West holds that Mary the mother of Jesus "''having completed the course of her life on earth''" was taken body and soul into heaven by her Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. The dogma does not state that she died, only that she was assumed body and soul into heaven when she had completed the course of her life on earth.

There has been no universal agreement on whether she actually died.<ref>[https://www.thoughtco.com/virgin-mary-die-before-her-assumption-542100 Did Virgin Mary Die Before Assumption? by Scott P. Richert (thoughtco.com)]</ref> The dogma proclaimed by Pope Pius XIII in 1950 in accordance with the ancient apostolic Christian tradition in the East and the West holds that Mary the mother of Jesus "''having completed the course of her life on earth''" was taken body and soul into heaven by her Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. The dogma does not state that she died, it does not state that she did not die, only that she was assumed body and soul into heaven when she had completed the course of her life on earth.

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