When and how did the Christian church determine that Jesus's mother ascended bodily into heaven?

My understanding is that Mary's "Assumption" was not part of the Christian belief system until several hundred years after her death.





When was she officially declared a saint, in which century?





How did the Christian church decide that she was taken bodily into heaven?





Are there any Protestant religions that believe Mary ascended into heaven in the flesh?|||The Christian church never determined this.


This legend is ascribed first to Semerimas, and survives in more well-known fashion as Venus, Diana, Astarte, Isis, Ishtar, etc... - all the mystery pagan religious had a female deity that was assumed up into heaven.


After 313 AD, when Constantine united the empire by blending Roman Paganism with Christian Iconography, many of these pagan practices died hard and were maintained by the subjects of the empire.


This "miracle" was transferred and attributed to Mary along with the Immaculate conception, etc... approximately 451 AD, close to the time of the council of Chalcedon. This kept the pagan mystery female deities alive and well under the new alias of "Mary." With so many other names, one more couldn't hurt!


They are all pagan doctrines, not Christian doctrines. The Catholic Church is the only denomination that ascribes to that particular form of paganism. The Eastern Orthodox church has some similar influences, but not quite as bad as the western church.|||Christianity is full of pagan practices and beliefs. But it was pure at one point. Over time it has become corrupted corrupted.





"Nothing has tended more thoroughly to corrupt Christianity than the introduction into it of superstitions which are really pagan themselves, or have been suggested by pagan practices.


Paganism, unable to oppose Christianity successfully, had done much to corrupt it, and in numberless ways had made inroads into its purity" The Apostate Church.





They will always make excuses though and try to prove it's not full of pagan practices and beliefs even though there is undeniable facts that there is|||There is no mention of Mary's death in the Bible.....





Catholic Church relies on traditions for their beliefs on the Assumption, but it's not scriptural|||she didn't she died and was layed in the ground and will be bought back in gods new Kingdom along with those who have died then until the end of this world|||This is not a teaching of the Bible, it is one of the man-made traditions that Jesus condemned.|||The Bible is silent about this, a Catholic doctrine.|||good questions. I think this may have been a personal revelation that others just grok.