19. But that most precious gem with which, one hundred years ago, the sacred diadem of the Blessed Virgin was adorned, seems to Us today to shine with brighter light, since by Divine providence it fell to Our lot, toward the close of the Jubilee Year of 1950 - We recall it with gratitude - to define that the Mother of God was assumed body and soul into Heaven; and thus to satisfy the wishes of the faithful, which had been more urgently expressed after the solemn definition of the Immaculate Conception.
Ac videtur nobis praetiosissima huiusmodi gemma, qua centum abhinc annos sacrum Beatae Mariae Virginis diadema distinctum fuit, splendidiore hodie luce refulgere, cum divino Providentiae Dei consilio auspicato Nobis contigerit ut, ad exitum vergente Iubilaeo Maximo, anno MDCCCCL — gratissima Nostrum subit memoria animum — almam Dei Genetricem definiremus animo fuisse et corpore in Caelum assumptam; atque ita christiani populi votis satisfaceremus, quae quidem iam tum peculiari modo nuncupata fuere, cum intaminatus Virginis conceptus sollemniter sancitus fuit.vatican.va vatican.va