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The Assumption of Mary is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. Pope Pius XII defined it on 1 November 1950 in his apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus as follows:

It leaves open the question of whether Mary died or whether she was raised to eternal life without bodily death. (Full article...)
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