The image of the scene when Pope Pius XII proclaimed the Dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven in 1950, through his Apostolic Constitution ‘Munificentissimus Deus’ released on 1 November 1950.

This proclamation is made ‘ex cathedra’ or from the authority of the Seat of St. Peter as the Vicar of Christ, as a binding Church teaching, in conjunction with the tradition of the faith, of both the West and East, that the Blessed Virgin Mary, being the mother of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, who conquered death through His resurrection, did not die but was brought bodily into heaven.