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I read a version of the rosary online and it said Mary died in a rapture which sounds to me like the beautific vision. Her body was taken because death is a result of original sin and she had none. Then the same decade said the Apostles went to her grave and found only lilies. If her body was taken why would there be a grave to go to? Can anyone make this clear to me?
 
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I read a version of the rosary online and it said Mary died in a rapture which sounds to me like the beautific vision. Her body was taken because death is a result of original sin and she had none. Then the same decade said the Apostles went to her grave and found only lilies. If her body was taken why would there be a grave to go to? Can anyone make this clear to me?
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The Church teaches dogmatically that Mary was assumed into Heaven.
The Church does not know if Mary died first or not and does not teach that. Catholics are free to believe Mary died or did not die before she was assumed.
Personally, I believe she died first and was assumed before her body was corrupted.
 
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I read a version of the rosary online and it said Mary died in a rapture which sounds to me like the beautific vision. Her body was taken because death is a result of original sin and she had none. Then the same decade said the Apostles went to her grave and found only lilies. If her body was taken why would there be a grave to go to? Can anyone make this clear to me?
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Well, tradition is a bit vague on this. Some pious devotion states that she also was in the sepulcher for some time, in order for her not to be seen as greater than her divine Son, who experienced physical death and was laid in a sepulcher for three days.

It is fully possible, but it is also possible that she was taken into heaven at once, without experiencing physical death, or experiencing what our Eastern brothers aptly call dormition. After all, Elijah was taken unto the Limbo of the Fathers without experiencing death.

By the way, it’s beatific vision 🙂 Though personally I love the way you spell it.
 
Great book on the subject… The Assumption of Mary by Kilian Healy
 
Ven. Mary of Agreda does a marvelous job depicting the dormition of Our Lady as it was divinely communicated to her along with the rest of Our Lady’s life story. Her book, The Mystical City of God has the approbation of several holy Popes and says that Mary’s body and soul was taken up to Heaven (assumed into Heaven), leaving only lilies behind at her tomb-site. God bless you.
 
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Ven. Mary of Agreda does a marvelous job depicting the dormition of Our Lady as it was divinely communicated to her along with the rest of Our Lady’s life story. Her book, The Mystical City of God has the approbation of several holy Popes and says that Mary’s body and soul was taken up to Heaven (assumed into Heaven), leaving only lilies behind at her tomb-site. God bless you.
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I should have said “replaced by lilies.” And the dormition story I believe was communicated to Ven. Mary of Agreda by the Virgin Mary; I’m not sure if God or the holy Angels revealed this part of her life as well. Of course, we are dealing with only private revelation in this book; but the book can be read with a pious faith, seeing it has the approbation of several popes.
 
I just listened to a homily about the dogma of Our Lady’s Assumption, and the priest said that Tradition has taught that roses and Our Lady’s veil were found at the tomb-site of Our Lady in replacement of her assumed body into heaven. He said what I think I have read in The Mystical City of God.
 
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