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Excerpt from Christine; A Troubadour's Song: The Sleep of Mary; Amin
The Assumption itself that is, the passing Of Mary from earth to Heaven with only a Short Sleep in the tomb, but without the death of the body - is a well-known belief of the Roman Catholic world. It has been made, by some of the greatest painters, the subject of many beauti ful pictures, of which those by Titian, Murillo, and Leonardo da Vinci are perhaps the most esteemed and celebrated.
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