That the Virgin Mary was never entombed but was taken bodily to Heaven is a belief celebrated in the greatest art and defined by the Catholic Church as "a probable opinion, which it is impious to deny, though not an article of faith."
One who would never think of denying it is His Most Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, who piously celebrates the Vigil of the Assumption every year, then takes off the clothes he wore while celebrating, sends them to the Duque de Hijar.
In Madrid last week the Old Clothes Duke,...
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