What is Romes legend about the Assumption of Mary?
It is that Mary died at the age of 72, that all the apostles were in distant countries at the time, that they were all with the exception of Thomas miraculously conveyed in the clouds to be present at her death, that they buried her at Gethsemane, and that three days after, when Thomas appeared, they opened the tomb that he might see her, but that, though the grave had been carefully guarded, they found nothing but the graveclothes. Whereupon they concluded that she had been taken up to Heaven.
