The teaching of the Church that at the death of the Blessed Virgin Mary her body was preserved from corruption and that shortly afterwards it was assumed into heaven and reunited to her soul. Even if reliable historical reports as to the place (Ephesus, Jerusalem), the time, and the circumstances of Mary’s death are lacking, still the fact of her death is almost generally accepted by the Fathers and Theologians, and is expressly affirmed in the Liturgy of the Church.
Direct and express Scriptural proofs of Mary’s Assumption are not to be found. Yet there is Scriptural evidence of others being raised from the dead or assumed into heaven
Gn. 5:24 – Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
Heb. 11:5 – By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God had taken him.
2 Kgs 2:11 – And as they still went on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Mt. 27:52 – the tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.
1 Thess. 4:17 – then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord.
1 Cor. 15:51-52 – Lo! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
Rom 6:23 – For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Rev. 11:19 – Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple; and there were flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
Rev.12:1 – And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars….
St. Gregory of Tours [AD 538-593] The course of this life having been completed by Blessed Mary, when now she would be called from the world, all the Apostles came together from their various regions to her house. And when they had heard that she was about to be taken from the world, they kept watch together with her. And behold, the Lord Jesus came with His angels, and taking her soul, Jesus gave it over to the Angel Michael and withdrew. At daybreak, however, the Apostles took up her body on a bier and placed it in a tomb; and they guarded it, expecting the Lord to come. And behold, again the Lord stood by them; and the holy body having been received, He commanded that it be taken in a cloud into paradise; where now rejoined to the soul, [Mary] rejoices with the Lord’s chosen ones, and is in the enjoyment of the good of an eternity that will never end (Eight Books of Miracles 1, 4).
St. John Damascene [AD 645-749] “The apostles were present there when Thomas, the only one who had been absent, arrived after the third day; and since he wanted to worship the body that had been the Tabernacle of God, they opened the coffin. And they were unable anywhere to find her most lauded body. When they found only her grave wrappings there, and the indescribable perfume which was born aloft from them, they sealed the coffin. Struck be the wonder of the mystery they could only think that He who had been pleased to become incarnate from her in His own person and to become Man and to be born in the flesh, God the Word, the Lord of Glory, who preserved her virginity intact after her parturation,–He was pleased even after her departure from life to honor her immaculate and undefiled body with incorruption and with translation prior to the common and universal resurrection” (Second Homily on the Dormition of Mary 10, 18).