• Till the predestined number of the elect is complete. Revelation 6:11:⁠— “And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow-servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.” ↩
• The spiritual body and the glorified earthly body. ↩
• Christ and the Virgin Mary. Butler, Lives of the Saints , VIII 173, says:⁠— “It is a traditionary pious belief, that the body of the Blessed Virgin was raised by God soon after her death, and assumed to glory, by a singular privilege, before the general resurrection of the dead. This is mentioned by the learned Andrew of Crete in the East, in the seventh, and by St. Gregory of Tours in the West, in the sixth century.⁠ ⁠… So great was the respect and veneration of the fathers towards this most holy and most exalted of all pure creatures, that St. Epiphanius durst not affirm that she ever died, because he had never found any mention of her death, and because she might have been preserved immortal, and translated to glory without dying.” ↩
• By the sacred trio of St. Peter, St. James, and St. John. ↩