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The Dormition of the Mother of God is a Great Feast of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic Churches (except the East Syriac churches). It celebrates the "falling asleep" (death) of Mary the Theotokos ("Mother of God", literally translated as God-bearer), and her being taken up into heaven.
The Sacred Tradition of Eastern Christianity teaches that the Virgin Mary died a natural death (the Dormition of the Theotokos, the falling asleep), like any human being; that her soul was received by Christ upon death; and that her body was resurrected on the third day after her repose, at which time she was taken up, soul and body, into heaven in anticipation of the general resurrection.
Twelfth-century façade of Mary's Tomb in the garden of Gethsemane, in Jerusalem. The Basilica of the Annunciation, in Nazareth. The Abbey of the Dormition, also known as Church of the Dormition of Our Lady on Mount Zion, in Jerusalem. The Church of the Tomb of the Virgin Mary in the garden of Gethsemane, in Jerusalem
The Catholic Church has had a long and controversial history of the faithful claiming to have had visions of the Virgin Mary, of statues purportedly weeping tears of blood and stigmata erupting on ...
While the Eastern Orthodox support the Dormition of the Theotokos, they do not support the Catholic doctrines of the Assumption of Mary and hence their depictions of the dormition are distinct and the Virgin Mary is usually shown sleeping surrounded by saints, while Catholic depictions often show Mary rising to Heaven. [93] [98]
The Abbey is said to mark the spot where Mary, mother of Jesus, died. Between 1998 and 2006 the community was known as the Abbey of Hagia Maria Sion, [1] in reference to the basilica of Hagia Sion that stood on this spot during the Byzantine period, but it resumed the original name during the 2006 celebrations of the monastery's centenary ...