75 years ago on Aug 15 1945, the Japanese surrender marked the end of WWII. Five years later in 1950 Pope Pius XII declared the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on this date. (Statue of Mary that survived the bombing of the Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki).
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Dogma of the Assumption: “We proclaim and define it to be a dogma revealed by God that the immaculate Mother of God, Mary ever virgin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into the glory of heaven.” (Death of the Virgin by Caravaggio)
The Feast is a big deal in Cleveland's Little Italy. But the dogma is incomprehensible to me, and to most Catholics.
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