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Mary's passage into heaven is called the Assumption of Mary by Catholics and the Dormition of the Theotokos by the Eastern Orthodox Church. Both churches commemorate the event on August 15August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. Events 778 The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, in which Roland is killed 1517 First European connection with China seven Portuguese armed vessels le; in the Roman Catholic Church, that date is known as the Feast of the Assumption, while in the Eastern Orthodox Church it is more often known as the Feast of the Dormition, which means "falling asleep", emphasizing the belief that Mary did bodily die before her Assumption. In Ludwig Ott's Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma he states that "the fact of her death is almost generally accepted by the Fathers and Theologians, and is expressly affirmed in the Liturgy of the Church," to which he adduces a number of helpful citations, and concludes that "for Mary, death, in consequence of her freedom from original sin and from personal sin, was not a consequence of punishment of sin. However, it seems fitting that Mary's body, which was by nature mortal, should be, in conformity with that of her Divine SonImages of Jesus in which a halo is used to represent divinity. 6 4 BCE to c. 29 33 CE) is the central figure in Christianity, in which context he is known as Jesus Christ (from the Hebrew Yehošua , and Greek Chi;ριστ&sigmaf Chris, subject to the general law of death" (Bk. III, Pt. 3, Ch. 2, §6). The point of her bodily death has not been dogmatically defined, and accordingly it is not a theological error to hold that, like EnochIn the Book of Genesis, Enoch or Hanoch "Initiated; dedicated; disciplined", Standard Hebrew ano Tiberian Hebrew an is a name shared by two individuals. The first was the son of Cain. Cain later founded a city which he named Enoch. The second was the son and ElijahElijah "Whose/my God is the Lord", Standard Hebrew Eliyyahu Tiberian Hebrew Eliyyh , also Elias ( NT Greek , is a prophet in the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. His name has been variously translated as "whose God is the Lord", "God the Lord", "the strong, she did not die at all, and was Assumed directly into heaven.
The Assumption is important to many Christians as the Virgin Mary's heavenly birthday (the day that Mary was received into heaven). Her acceptance into the glory of heaven is seen as the confirmation of the promise made by Jesus to all enduring Christians that they too will be received into paradise. The Feast of the Assumption, celebrated on August the 15th in both the Eastern and Western Churches, is a Public HolidayA holiday is day set aside by a nation or culture (in some cases, multiple nations and cultures) typically for celebration but sometimes for some other kind of special culture-wide (or national) observation or activity. Based on the English words holy and in many countries, including France, Italy, Spain, and Greece. In many places, religious parades, and popular festivals are held to celebrate this day.