Excerpt from Christine; A Troubadour's Song: The Sleep of Mary; Amin The Assumption itself that is, the passing Of Mary from earth to Heaven with only a Short Sleep in the tomb, but without the death of the body - is a well-known belief of the Roman Catholic world. It has been made, by some of the greatest painters, the subject of many beauti ful pictures, of which those by Titian, Murillo, and Leonardo da Vinci are perhaps the most esteemed and celebrated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.