It fits that at the end of Mary’s life she was assumed, body and soul, into heaven, and it would be unfitting to believe that while some of her DNA is in heaven, the rest of it was condemned simply to rot after her earthly death.

In fact, that poisoning had happened before World War II, and would continue long after. Pope Pius believed that the world desperately needed an antidote, and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was at least part of that.