Assumption of the Virgin

Most researchers agree that the Virgin Mary lived on earth for 72 years and died around the 57th year of our era. The apostles buried the Virgin in the tomb of Her parents, the righteous Joachim and Anna, in which the ashes of Her husband Joseph the Betrothed, rested at the very foot of the Mount of Olives, or Mount of Olives, near the Garden of Gethsemane, where Christ loved to talk with his disciples and where He was arrested. At this place is now an underground Orthodox (Greek) temple.

The apostles closed the grave of the Virgin Mary with a stone in the same way as before the grave of Christ, as was customary. The Apostle Thomas did not have time for the funeral of the Virgin - he came to Jerusalem on the third day after the burial. Other apostles led him to the tomb so that Thomas could also say goodbye to the Mother of his God. “... When the holy Apostles, having rolled off the stone, opened the coffin, they were horrified: the grave of the Mother of God was not in the tomb, - there were only burial sheets that spread a wonderful fragrance; the holy Apostles stood in amazement, wondering what this means! Climbing with tears and reverence the burial shroud remaining in the tomb, they prayed to the Lord that He would reveal to them where the body of the Blessed Virgin Mary had disappeared? ”Narrates St. Dimitry of Rostov.
On the same day, the holy apostles gathered together at dinner - and they saw each other quite rarely, because everyone carried the Word of God in different countries. And then the Virgin appeared to them surrounded by angels and said: “Rejoice! “For I am with you all the days.” That is why the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is not a cause for sadness, but a holiday. After all, “with you” means that She is with us all “all the days” ...

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