** Feast day of the Assumption of Mary, one of the Catholic holy days of obligation.

With this deed dating back to August 15, 805 A. D., the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, she donated her entire property in Dachau, including 5 so called Colonenhöfe and some serfs and bondsman, to devolve to the Bishop of the Diocese of Freising after her death.

The report " Mary: Faith and Hope in Christ ", by the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, concluded that the teaching about Mary in the two definitions of the Assumption and the Immaculate Conception can be said to be consonant with the teaching of the Scriptures and the ancient common traditions.

* Dormition of the Theotokos / Assumption of Mary – August 15

* 1950 – Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.

The Eastern Orthodox Church liturgical calendar begins on 1 September – proceeding annually from the Nativity of the Theotokos to the celebration of Jesus ' birth in the winter ( Christmas ), through his death and resurrection in the spring ( Pascha / Easter ), to his Ascension and the Assumption of his mother ( Dormition of the Theotokos / Virgin Mary ) in the summer.

The first explicit such occasion ( after the proclamation ), and so far the last, was the definition of the dogma of the Assumption of Mary in 1950.

In 1950, the pope defined the Assumption of Mary as dogma, the only time that a pope has spoken ex cathedra since papal infallibility was explicitly declared.

Pius XII explicitly invoked ex cathedra papal infallibility with the dogma of the Assumption of Mary in his 1950 Apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus.

On 1 November 1950, Pius XII defined the dogma of the Assumption of Mary, namely that she " having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.

King Stephen died on the feast day which commemorates the bodily assumption into heaven of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Feast of the Assumption on 15 August, in the year 1038, at Esztergom-Szentkirály or Székesfehérvár, where he was buried.

Between 1500 and 1503 he carved an altar, now lost, for the parish church of Schwaz, Tyrol of the " Assumption of Mary ".

* R 4. 38 – Mass for the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in G major ( 1809 )

* R 4. 42 – Mass for the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in G major ( 1811 )

* R 4. 44 – Mass for the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in C major

It commemorates the Assumption of Mary.

Catholic tradition says she rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven with both body and soul intact in what is called the Assumption of Mary, however others say her body was taken away lest it become an idol.

The Catholic Church regards him as a Doctor of the Church, often referred to as the Doctor of the Assumption due to his writings on the Assumption of Mary.

The decisions of fourteen later councils that Catholics hold as dogmatic and two decrees promulgated by Popes ' exercising papal infallibility ( see Immaculate Conception and Assumption of Mary ) are considered as being a part of the Church's sacred body of doctrine.

It was begun in 1174 by William II, and in 1182 the church, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, was, by a bull of Pope Lucius III, elevated to the rank of a metropolitan cathedral.

* Lutherans also celebrate St John the Baptist or the Beheading of St John the Baptist on June 24, St Mary Magdalene July 22, St. Mary, Mother of Our Lord or the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on August 15, Holy Cross Day September 14, Francis of Assisi, renewal of the Church St. Francis of Assisi on October 4, and the Holy Innocents, Martyrs December 28.

Observed by Roman Catholics and some Anglicans on August 15, which is the same as the Eastern and Orthodox feast of the Dormition, the end of the earthly life of the Virgin Mary and, for some, her bodily Assumption into heaven, is celebrated.

Rather he explicitly calls for the military " liberation " of the Eastern Churches, and appoints Adhemar of Le Puy to lead the Crusade, to set out on the day of the Assumption of Mary, August 15.

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven, informally known as The Assumption, according to the Christian beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, and parts of Anglicanism, was the bodily taking up of the Virgin Mary into Heaven at the end of her earthly life.

In Eastern Orthodox churches following the Julian Calendar, the feast day of Assumption of Mary falls on August 28.

The Catholic Feast of the Assumption is celebrated on August 15, and the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholics celebrate the Dormition of the Theotokos ( the falling asleep of the Mother of God ) on the same date, preceded by a 14-day fast period.

Many theologians note by way of comparison that in the Catholic Church, the Assumption is dogmatically defined, while in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the Dormition is less dogmatically than liturgically and mystically defined.

The Catholic Church, too, views holy tradition in much the same terms, as a passing down of that same Apostolic Faith, but, in a critical difference from the Eastern Orthodox position, holds that the Faith continues to deepen and develop over time, and in our understanding of it, all the while staying the same ; thus the doctrine of the Trinity, the two natures of Christ, the divine motherhood, the Immaculate Conception and Assumption of Mary, along with other central Catholic Christian doctrines were not fully defined until many years after Christ had ascended and the Apostles had died, and that our understanding of them may continue to deepen, not only through mystical experience, but through the sciences of philosophy and theology, exemplified by the Scholastics, such as Saint Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham of the High Middle Ages.

The Orthodox Church also believes in the Assumption ( which is termed the Dormition ).

Broadview Heights is home to a number of churches, including Assumption, Orchard Path United Methodist Church, St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church, and Cuyahoga Valley Church.

Holy Assumption is an Orthodox Church in America | Orthodox church, serving part of Lublin's population with roots in eastern Europe.

The Assumption is important to many Catholic and Orthodox Christians as the Virgin Mary's heavenly birthday ( the day that Mary was received into Heaven ).

Prominent Catholic and Orthodox countries in which Assumption day is an important festival but is not recognized by the state as a public holiday include Argentina, Brazil, Czech Republic, Ireland, Mexico, the Philippines and Russia.

It was sold to the Autocephalous Orthodox Ukrainian Church in 1976, now being the parish of The Sacred Assumption of the Holy Virgin.

There is also a longstanding Greek Orthodox Church, the Church of the Assumption, which separated from St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in the 1930s.

It was built in 1508 for the Russian Orthodox cathedrals in Cathedral Square, namely the Assumption, Archangel and Annunciation cathedrals, which do not have their own belfries.

Ivan the Great Bell Tower adjoins the Assumption Belfry, which was built between 1523 and 1543 by the Italian immigrant architect Petrok Maly Fryazin ( who converted to Orthodox Christianity and settled in Russia ).

Assumption Cathedral or Dormition Cathedral ( Russian: храма Успения Cathedral of the dormition or Успенский собор Uspenski Cathedral ) may refer to a number of Cathedral churches consecrated to the Dormition of the Theotokos in the Orthodox tradition and Assumption of Mary in the Roman Catholic tradition:

The Assumption Cathedral in Smolensk housed one of the most venerated icons of the Orthodox Church, Our Lady of Smolensk attributed to St Luke, and Napoleon assumed that the Russians would fight outside the city to avoid its destruction.

The Orthodox feast of the Dormition is analogous to what Roman Catholicism calls the Assumption of Mary.

The event is normally called the " Dormition ", though there are many Orthodox Churches with the name " Assumption ".

Image: Darlington Orthodox Church. JPG | The Assumption of Our Lady, Greek Orthodox Church, Abercrombie Street

Bryant is also the home to Assumption Catholic Church, University Unitarian Church, Ravenna Methodist, which houses a local preschool cooperative, and three synagogues, Congregation Beth Shalom ( Conservative ) at 35th Avenue NE and NE 68th Street, Emmanuel Congregation ( Modern Orthodox ) on NE 65th Street and 35th Avenue NE, and Congregation Shaarei Tefilah – Lubavitch ( Orthodox ) on NE 65th Street and 43rd Avenue NE.