1950
Pope Pius XII, declared infallibly, ex cathedra:
Pope Pius XII, declared infallibly, ex cathedra:
Mary, having
completed the course
of her earthly life, was assumed
body and soul to heavenly
glory.
(The
Magisterium has stayed conspicuously silent regarding whether this process entailed Mary's physical death.
The teaching merely
states that Mary's body and soul were assumed at the completion of the course of Mary's
life.)
