The elevation of the Virgin Mary to heaven in body and soul is known as the assumption.
Asunción is a concept with several uses. The term, which comes from the Latin word assumptio , can refer to the act and result of assuming : accepting responsibility, beginning to perform a function or position.
For example: “The inauguration of the president-elect will take place on March 14” , “Three months before the inauguration, the image of the governor fell five points” , “More than a hundred police officers will guarantee security at the inauguration of the legislators.”
The assumption can also refer to the action of ascending (climbing or climbing, especially symbolically) or, in the context of the Catholic religion , to the elevation of the Virgin Mary to heaven in body and soul .
The assumption of the Virgin Mary
Catholic tradition indicates that this assumption, considered a dogma of faith (a truth that believers should not question), occurred when the Virgin Mary died and ascended to heaven. This holiday, which should not be confused with the ascension of Jesus , is celebrated every August 15 .
We must refer to the Eastern Liturgy to find the oldest reference to the assumption of the Virgin. Already in the 4th century, the celebration of a festival called The Memory of Mary took place. Its central theme was the entry of the mother of Jesus Christ into heaven , which was believed to have occurred through said elevation in body and soul.
Two years later, this festival began to be known by the name of
Asunción is the capital of Paraguay.
From East to West
Beginning in the 4th and 5th centuries, a series of apocryphal stories about the assumption of the Virgin appeared. The Book of Saint John the Evangelist was the one that enjoyed the greatest diffusion, and is believed to be among the oldest. Some Eastern orators, including John of Damascus, John of Thessalonica, Saint Germanus of Constantinople, and Saint Andrew of Crete, based many of their writings and homilies on the numerous apocryphal writings.
The doctrine of the Assumption took several centuries to reach the West, largely due to the linguistic and political factors that separated the different nations: relations were not exactly favorable and there were not yet many experts in the Greek language. For these reasons, only in the 12th century did the treatise Ad Interrogata appear, whose authorship was attributed to Saint Augustine, in which the assumption of the Virgin in body and soul was taken as true, something that was also supported by important theologians, such as Saint Thomas Aquinas.
In the 16th century, Saint Pius V reformed the Breviary , a book of Catholicism in which the obligations of the clergy are collected for each moment of the year, and decided to eliminate citations that opposed the theory of the Assumption, replacing them with writings that They defended her.
Asunción, name of city and person
Asunción , on the other hand, is the capital of Paraguay . The city has more than half a million inhabitants, being the most populated town in this South American country. The bay, the Palacio de los López , the National Pantheon of Heroes , the cathedral and the Manzana de la Rivera are among the main tourist attractions of Asunción .
Finally, it should be noted that Asunción is a feminine name that is used in Spain and several Latin American countries . Asunción Balaguer , to cite a personality who bears this name, is a Spanish actress born in 1925 in Manresa who worked in film, theater and TV.