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The Garden of Paradise
Saint ephraim of syria lived in the three hundreds. He describes mary saying, before her death, i shall enter the verdant gardens of paradise and there i shall praise god where eve fell so ingloriously. Most scholars say the text is too vague to ground belief in mary's bodily assumption. But a shoemaker writes that no one is present in paradise without his or her body.