Assumption of Mary and dogmatic statement

Erose said:

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.

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bbbbbbb said:

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.

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bbbbbbb said:

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.

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Erose said:

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.

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Ave Maria said:

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.

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bbbbbbb said:

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

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Thekla said:

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

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