<P> Later apocrypha based on these earlier texts include the De Obitu S. Dominae, attributed to St. John, a work probably from around the turn of the 6th century that is a summary of the "Six Books" narrative . The story also appears in De Transitu Virginis, a late 5th - century work ascribed to St. Melito of Sardis that presents a theologically redacted summary of the traditions in the Liber Requiei Mariae . The Transitus Mariae tells the story of the apostles being transported by white clouds to the deathbed of Mary, each from the town where he was preaching at the hour . The Decretum Gelasianum in the 490s declared some transitus Mariae literature apocryphal . </P> <P> An Armenian letter attributed to Dionysus the Areopagite also mentioned the supposed event, although this was written sometime after the 6th century . John of Damascus, from this period, is the first church authority to advocate the doctrine under his own name . His contemporaries, Gregory of Tours and Modestus of Jerusalem, helped promote the concept to the wider church . </P> <P> In some versions of the story, the event is said to have taken place in Ephesus, in the House of the Virgin Mary . This is a much more recent and localized tradition . The earliest traditions say that Mary's life ended in Jerusalem (see "Mary's Tomb"). By the 7th century, a variation emerged, according to which one of the apostles, often identified as St Thomas, was not present at the death of Mary but his late arrival precipitates a reopening of Mary's tomb, which is found to be empty except for her grave clothes . In a later tradition, Mary drops her girdle down to the apostle from heaven as testament to the event . This incident is depicted in many later paintings of the Assumption . </P> <P> Teaching of the Assumption of Mary became widespread across the Christian world, having been celebrated as early as the 5th century and having been established in the East by Emperor Maurice around AD 600 . St. John Damascene records the following: </P>

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