all listed apocrypha are quite late—5th and 6th century—and their content differs from each other. therefore, the church did not adopt all their content, but only the basic idea that the virgin mary blissfully rested and her soul was adopted by her son jesus christ at dormition. according to nikephoros kallistos xanthopoulos in his "history of the church," emperor maurice (582–602) issued an edict which set the date for the celebration of the dormition on august 15. after that christians in the empire began to celebrate the death of the virgin mary. modestus, patriarch of jerusalem (630—632) said at this celebration, while preaching, that he regrets the lack of specific information about the death of the virgin mary.