Each year on the 15 August the Marian feast celebrates the Assumption of Mary into Heaven, but other churches refer to it as the Dormition and emphasise her falling asleep. Young Catholic film-maker Bridget Curran talks about her research into Mary's miracles and former nun Bernice Moore reflects on the celebration of Mary.
She appears everywhere.
Speaks in numerable languages and is everything from fair skinned to black. She is Mary and her feast is coming up in mid August.
The Assumption of Mary.
Mary the mother of Jesus. For many Catholics around the world, she is more intimate to them than God the Father. No wonder. Her image is everywhere. Even the most humanist artists in the Renaissance loving painted her.
How do a bunch of women who are progressive women think about Mary?
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