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Thursday, August 15, 2013
Gregory of Tours: Assumption of Mary
"THE Lord . . . commanded the body of Mary be taken in a cloud into paradise; where now, rejoined to the soul, Mary dwells with the chosen ones."
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St. Gregory, Bishop of Tours
, France (594 A.D.)
Death and Assumption of the Virgin, by Domenico Ghirlandaio.
Fresco, 1486-90; Cappella Tornabuoni, Santa Maria Novella, Florence.
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