Note 23 — Chapter II · —The Beginnings of the Via Crucis
Reading edition
“The Departure of my Lady Mary from this world,” translated from the Syriac by Dr William Wright, “Journal of Sacred Literature,” April, 1865. This account is copied from a MS. of the sixth century. On the apocryphal “Transitus Mariæ,” see O. Sinding, “Mariæ Tod und Himmelfahrt,” and Mommert, “Die Dormitio und das deutsche Grundstück auf dem traditionellen Sion,” Leipzig, 1899.