What happened to the saint who were resurrected in Matt. 27:52-53?

[Genesis315]

So what happened to these saints after they were raised from their graves and they appeared to many? Did they walk around for a while and then go back into their graves? Were they assumed into Heaven? Is there any tradition on this?

 

[Fidelis]

Genesis315:

So what happened to these saints after they were raised from their graves and they appeared to many? Did they walk around for a while and then go back into their graves? Were they assumed into Heaven? Is there any tradition on this?

The Bible is silent on this issue and, as far as I know, there’s no tradition on this.

 

[enanneman]

Genesis315:

So what happened to these saints after they were raised from their graves and they appeared to many? Did they walk around for a while and then go back into their graves? Were they assumed into Heaven? Is there any tradition on this?

The Venerable Anne Emmerich mentions this in her Dolorous Passion of Christ, in which this 19th century nun had visions of Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection.

Of the account of the tombs being opened and many of the saints being seen walking around Jerusalem, she seems to indicate that the souls inhabited the bodies only for a time. That, they weren’t resurrected, and when the souls were called to heaven, the bodies returned to their graves. Though, the way she describes this in chapter 59 makes it seem like the bodies simply dropped wherever they happened to be standing.

From [chapter XLVI](http://www.jesus-passion.com/THE_PASSION4.htm#CHAPTER XLVI):
More than a hundred persons who had died at different epochs re-entered the bodies they had occupied when on earth, made their appearance in different parts of Jerusalem, and filled the inhabitants with inexpressible consternation. Those souls which had been released by Jesus from Limbo uncovered their faces and wandered to and fro in the streets, and although their bodies were the same as those which they had animated when on earth, yet these bodies did not appear to touch the ground as they walked. They entered the houses of their descendants, proclaimed the innocence of Jesus, and reproved those who had taken part in his death most severely. I saw them passing through the principal streets; they were generally in couples, and appeared to me to glide through the air without moving their feet. The countenances of some were pale; others of a yellow tint; their beards were long, and their voices sounded strange and sepulchral. Their grave-clothes were such as it was customary in use at the period of their decease. When they reached the place where sentence of death was proclaimed on Jesus before the procession started for Calvary, they paused for a moment, and exclaimed in a loud voice: ‘Glory be to Jesus for ever and ever, and destruction to his enemies!’ Towards four o’clock all the dead returned to their graves.

**From chapter LIX:**Our Lord addressed a few words to both, and then entered Abraham’s bosom, accompanied by numerous angels and holy souls, and also by those demons who had been chained and expelled from the compartment.
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Many of these holy souls were ordered by our Lord to return to the earth, re-enter their own bodies, and thus render a solemn and impressive testimony to the truth. It was at this moment that so many dead persons left their tombs in Jerusalem; I regarded them less in the light of dead persons risen again than as corpses put in motion by a divine power, and which, after having fulfilled the mission intrusted to them, were laid aside in the same manner as the insignia of office are taken off by a clerk when he has executed the orders of his superiors.

Of course, these are all private revelations and we are free to believe or disbelieve as we see fit.

Peace and God bless!

Eric