<P> The Catholic Church teaches as dogma that the Virgin Mary `` having completed the course of her earthly life , was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory '' . This doctrine was dogmatically defined by Pope Pius XII on 1 November 1950 , in the apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus by exercising papal infallibility . While the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church believe in the Dormition of the Theotokos , which is the same as the Assumption , whether Mary had a physical death has not been dogmatically defined . </P>
<P> The Catholic Church teaches as dogma that the Virgin Mary `` having completed the course of her earthly life , was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory '' . This doctrine was dogmatically defined by Pope Pius XII on 1 November 1950 , in the apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus by exercising papal infallibility . While the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church believe in the Dormition of the Theotokos , which is the same as the Assumption , whether Mary had a physical death has not been dogmatically defined . </P>
when was the feast of the assumption established
when was the feast of the assumption established
1 November 1950
1 November 1950