Ascension

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Ascension or ascending may refer to:

Religion

• Ascension (mystical), the belief in some religions that there are certain rare individuals that have ascended into Heaven directly without dying first
• Ascension of Jesus
• Feast of the Ascension (Ascension day), an annual day of feast commemorating Jesus' ascension; a public holiday in several countries
• The Ascension, another title for the Old English poem Christ II
• Ascension Cathedral (disambiguation)
• The Ascension, Lavender Hill, an Anglo-Catholic church on Lavender Hill, Battersea, South West London

Places

• Ascensión Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
  • Ascensión, Mexico, a city and capital of the municipality
• Ascension Island, in the southern Atlantic Ocean
• Ascension Islands, a group of uninhabited islands in Canada
• Ascension, Prince Edward Island, Canada
• L'Ascension, Quebec, Canada
• Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States

Fiction

• Ascension (comics), a comic book series (1997–2000) created by David Finch
• Ascension (Star Wars novel), 2011

Film and TV

• The Climb (2017 film) (French title: L'ascension), a French adventure film
• Dracula II: Ascension, a 2003 direct-to-video American-Romanian horror film
• Ascension, an award-winning short film produced by Vickie Gest
• Ascension (miniseries), a television miniseries that aired in December 2014
• "Ascension" (The X-Files), a 1994 episode of The X-Files
• "Ascension", a 1999 episode of Batman Beyond

• Ascension (Stargate), in the Stargate universe, a process to become a noncorporeal entity on a higher plane of existence (first mentioned in season 3, 2000)

• "Ascension" (Stargate SG-1), a 2001 Stargate SG-1 episode
• "Ascension", a 2013 episode of NCIS: Los Angeles
• Ascension (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), a 2016 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode

Games

• Mage: The Ascension, a role-playing game
• Ultima IX: Ascension, the final part of the computer role-playing game series Ultima
• God of War: Ascension, a 2013 game for the PlayStation 3
• Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer, a 2011 deck-building card game
• A game map in Zombie Mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops, from the "First Strike" map pack

Music

• L'ascension, an orchestral suite by Olivier Messiaen
• Ascension, an alias used by the British trance music act The Space Brothers

Ships

• HMS Ascension (K502), a Royal Navy frigate in service from 1944 to 1946
• MV Ascension, a 1993 cargo and container ship

Other

• Ascension (Calvo), an outdoor 1996 sculpture by Robert Calvo, in Portland, Oregon
• Ascension (Wercollier), 1978 and 1986 sculptures by Lucien Wercollier
• Ascension (company), a Catholic non-profit health system in the United States
• Ascension Road, Prince Edward Island Route 160, a highway in Canada
• The Ascension (professional wrestling), a WWE wrestling tag team

See also

• Ascend (disambiguation)
• Asunción
• Asunción (disambiguation)
• Right ascension, half of an astronomical coordinate system