Statute, Parroquia de Santa Maria, Ejica

On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII defined the Assumption of Mary to be a dogma of faith: “We pronounce, declare and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma that the immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul to heavenly glory.”

(The feast of the Assumption is tomorrow, 15 August , and is a public holiday in Spain)