>KW wrote:
>"Can I get some enlightenment about this tomb? If Mary was assumed into
>heaven, why a tomb? Is there an official version of this or is this all
>a matter of tradition/apocrypha? In fact the term in use when I was
>learning about all this was "dormition" rather than "death" of the
>Virgin."
KW:
The early traditions of the death/ Dormition/( Koimesis)
'Falling asleep' ( See: II Thess. 4:13 - We do not want you to be
ignorant, brethren , concerning those who have fallen asleep...) and
bodily translation of the Mother of Jesus are detailed in:
P. Voulet. S. Jean Damascène: Homilies sur la Nativit
Josef Gulka
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