In 1950, Pope Pius XII declared as dogma what the Catholic Church had always believed and taught since the time of the Apostles 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.”

Pope Pius XII's apostolic constitution defining the dogma: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/piu...

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