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CLEVELAND — I was here last weekend for the Feast of the Assumption in the city’s Little Italy neighborhood.

The Feast of the Assumption, observed Aug. 15, is one of the great days on the Roman Catholic calendar. It commemorates the dogma that Mary — variously called Blessed Virgin Mary, Mary the Mother of God, St. Mary and yet other names depending on one’s theology and denomination — was taken body and soul into heavenly glory at the end of her natural life on Earth.

While most Protestants reject the belief, some Anglicans and Lutherans mark the day, though rarely with the kind of public display of faith that fills Cleveland’s historic Italian quarter.

Centered on Holy Rosary Catholic Church, an unremarkable brick baroque revival church built at the turn of the last centur

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