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Then the Saviour spoke, saying: Rise, Peter, and take the body of Mary, and send it to the right hand side of the city towards the east, and thou wilt find there a new tomb, in which you will lay her, and wait until I come to you. And thus saying, the Lord delivered the soul of St. Mary to Michael, who was the ruler of paradise, and the prince of the nation of the Jews; 1 and Gabriel went with them. And immediately the Saviour was received up into heaven along with the angels.
Comp. Dan. x. 21, xii. 1. ↩
