St. Anthony on the Assumption. Among the holy writers who at that time employed statements and various images and analogies of Sacred Scripture to Illustrate and to confirm the doctrine of the Assumption, which was piously believed, the Evangelical Doctor, St. Anthony of Padua, holds a special place. On the feast day of the Assumption, while explaining the prophets words: I will glorify the place of my feet,(27) he stated it as certain that the divine Redeemer had bedecked with supreme glory his most beloved Mother from whom he had received human flesh. He asserts that you have here a clear statement that the Blessed Virgin has been assumed in her body, where was the place of the Lords feet. Hence it is that the holy Psalmist writes: Arise, O Lord, into your resting place: you and the ark which you have sanctified. And he asserts that, just as Jesus Christ has risen from the death over which he triumphed and has ascended to the right hand of the Father, so likewise the ark of his sanctification has risen up, since on this day the Virgin Mother has been taken up to her heavenly dwelling. ~APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION OF POPE PIUS XII , MUNIFICENTISSIMUS DEUS DEFINING THE DOGMA OF THE ASSUMPTION , November 1, 1950~
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