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."

~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.