15 August

It’s the Feast of the Assumption of Mary or, in the East, the Dormition of the Theotokos.

Above: The Assumption of the Virgin (c. 1475) by Francesco Botticini

From the book of Revelation:

And there appeared a great wonder in heaven: A woman clothed with the Sun, and the Moon was under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve Stars. And she was with child, and cried travailing in birth, and was pained ready to be delivered.