"Will death take possession of the first fruits of life, and the tomb hold her who by her lifegiving childbirth ought to empty the tombs? Certainly not!"
— Assumption of Mary

January 1, 1970

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John Mauropos, metropolitan of Euchaita, Serm. in SS. Deip. Dormit., 17-20, PG 120, 1092. 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. 30 (of 153).