The ascension of Jesus (Acts 1:9-11) is the departure of Christ from Earth into the presence of God.The biblical narrative in Chapter 1 of the Acts of the Apostles takes place '40 days' after the resurrection: Jesus is taken up from the disciples in their sight, a cloud hides him from view, and two men in white appear to tell them that he will return "in the same way you have seen him go into heaven."
The Assumption of Mary into Heaven (often shortened to the Assumption) is, according to the beliefs of the Catholic Church, the bodily taking up of the Virgin Mary into Heaven at the end of her earthly life. The Catholic Church teaches as dogma that the Virgin Mary "having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory". Pope Pius XII pointed to the Book of Genesis (3:15) as scriptural support for the dogma in terms of Mary's victory over sin and death through her intimate association with "the new Adam" (Christ) as also reflected in 1 Corinthians 15:54: "then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory". The New Testament contains no explicit narrative about the death or Dormition, but several scriptural passages have been theologically interpreted to describe the ultimate fate in this and the after world of the Mother of Jesus. The Catholic Church itself interprets chapter 12 of the Book of Revelation as referring to it.