Assumption of Mary and dogmatic statement

[bbbbbbb]

Actually the cult of relics is a very early tradition, that stretched as early as the 1st century as shown by archelogical evidence. In fact one of the things that the Roman's would do with the bodies of martyrs was throw them into the sea with weights on so that the living Christians could not get access to the saint's relics.

This is actually one of the most convincing evidences of the Assumption of the Blessed Mother. There are only two people in Christendom that there are no bodily relics even claimed and that is Jesus and Mary. We have relics of all of the Apostles, St. John the Baptist, the early martyrs, etc. None of the Blessed Mother or her only son.

Note, please, that I did not assign any beginning date to the cult of relics, but merely stated that it reached its zenith in the late middle ages.

 

[Kristos]

Note, please, that I did not assign any beginning date to the cult of relics, but merely stated that it reached its zenith in the late middle ages.

- in response to the lack of bodily relics of Mary - you stated that the cult of relics started "much later" - not in the 1st Century. To which they responded - no, it started in the 1st Century based on x.

 

[Erose]

Note, please, that I did not assign any beginning date to the cult of relics, but merely stated that it reached its zenith in the late middle ages.

And I say that this is wrong. It's zenith was well before that and relics were very popular from the outset of the Church as shown from the Basilicas and Churches built over the relics of many early martyrs and saints after Christianity became legal in the Empire.

 

[bbbbbbb]

And I say that this is wrong. It's zenith was well before that and relics were very popular from the outset of the Church as shown from the Basilicas and Churches built over the relics of many early martyrs and saints after Christianity became legal in the Empire.

Do you have any idea as to why relics were so extremely popular when the Second Commandment forbids them?

 

[Artfulldodger]

The question is open to debate. My own personal belief is that she was assumed into Heaven at the moment of her death and not before or afterwards.

Well said.

 

[Thekla]

Do you have any idea as to why relics were so extremely popular when the Second Commandment forbids them?

Well there's a bit of a stretch ...

 

[Artfulldodger]

Well there's a bit of a stretch ...

Of topic here or what ? The discussion is the Assumption and Infallibility not relics etc.