THE ASSUMPTION OF OUR LADY AS DESCRIBED IN "MYSTICAL CITY OF GOD" BY VEN. MARÍA DE AGREDA
On November 1st, 1950 the Holy Father Pius XII issued the Apostolic Constitution, Munificentissimus Deus which declared the dogma of the Assumption wherein the most Blessed Virgin Mary ascended into the glory of Heaven in body and soul. What remained undeclared, however, was whether the soul of Her body first ascended into Heaven after Her bodily death, or whether she ascended directly into the glory of paradise body and soul without undergoing bodily death. According to the Spanish mystic Venerable María de Jesús de Agreda in her monumental work Mística Ciudad de Dios ("Mystical City of God")...
