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    Posted: November 01 2008 at 16:02
Today (Nov. 1st) the Catholic Church celebrates the All Souls' Day. It is the day when everybody visits the graves of their relatives, friends or other people that meant something for them and lights candles in their memory.
I visited the grave of my grandmother's (my father's mother) mother and two sisters who were killed during Warsaw Uprising in 1944.
I also visited the grave of one the greatest prog musicans and the greatest vocalist that was born on Polish ground - Czesław Niemen - who passed away in January 2004.

Do you know this practice in your countries?

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Points: 16111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 01 2008 at 16:07
I was born and raised in a highly Catholic family, but I've never heard of this tradition. But I'm intrigued!

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That's strange, I just read on Wikipedia that today (1st of November) Catholics celebrate "All Saints Day", while tomorrow (2nd of November) is All Souls Day. That's how I knew it as well...

We (Orthodox Church) mostly do the same. Tomorrow, in our case, would be "Day Of The Dead" or "All Souls Day" (as the ritual you just mentioned is the same thing we do - mostly relatives, but, who knows, people we knew as well...). In Romanian, it's called "Ziua morților”.


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Points: 24440 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 01 2008 at 16:09
We have the same custom in Italy, of course, and probably tomorrow I will go to visit my parents' grave. Incidentally, Monday is also the 15th anniversary of my father's death, so the visit will be doubly meaningful to me. It will also be my last visit there for a long time, seen my upcoming move to the US. My parents are buried in a small, pleasant cemetery in the Roman countryside, away from the hustle and bustle of the city, with lots of trees and quiet. Though I don't really need to go there in order to remember them, I enjoy that place, and visits there leave me with a great sense of inner peace.
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Points: 5898 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 01 2008 at 16:09
I think it's an Eastern European thing since the Greek Orthodox church also has All Souls' Day.
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Points: 13575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 01 2008 at 16:13
Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

That's strange, I just read on Wikipedia that today (1st of November) Catholics celebrate "All Saints Day", while tomorrow (2nd of November) is All Souls Day. That's how I knew it as well...


Yes, you're right. I mistook the names. Embarrassed But it's a common mistake. It's All Saints Day today. Anyway, it's on November 1st when we always visit the graves.


Edited by Tuzvihar - November 01 2008 at 16:14
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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 01 2008 at 16:15
Originally posted by Tuzvihar Tuzvihar wrote:

Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

That's strange, I just read on Wikipedia that today (1st of November) Catholics celebrate "All Saints Day", while tomorrow (2nd of November) is All Souls Day. That's how I knew it as well...


Yes, you're right. I mistook the names. Embarrassed But it's a common mistake. It's All Saints Day today. Anyway, it's on November 1st when we always visit the graves.


The graves of the saints, that is? LOL

Here, since the 2nd of November happens to be on a Sunday, it's logic to celebrate properly All Souls Day then...Today, I saw the flowers market flourish humongously...By Monday, it will probably be back to normal. LOL


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Points: 12291 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 01 2008 at 16:28
We do it here on Nov 2nd... but the movement begins one week before and ends one week later to avoid confusion. This time the price of the flowers go to the stratosphere.
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For the Greek Orthodox is not All Saints Day today...Smile
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Points: 5898 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 01 2008 at 16:55
Originally posted by aapatsos aapatsos wrote:

For the Greek Orthodox is not All Saints Day today...Smile


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