"Death will not boast of you, because you have carried Life in your womb; [and the vessel which held It] will not be broken by death, nor will it be enshrouded by the somber folds of darkness."
— Assumption of Mary

January 1, 1970

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Saint Germanus of Constantinople, In dormit. B. Mariae, Hom. II towards the end, PG, 725 (Hom. II, no. 2). As reported in Joseph Duhr, SJ, The Glorious Assumption of the Mother of God, translated by John Manning Frances, SJ, Pç.J. Kenedy & Sons, New York, June 1950 (with nihil obstat by John M.A. Fearns, S.T.D., and imprimatur by Cardinal Francis Spellman given on September 18, 1950), p. 29 (of 153). OCLC 2212367.