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  2. All Souls' Day - Wikipedia

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    All Souls Day emphasizes "the Christian belief in bodily resurrection and eternal life". [16] Some All Souls' Day traditions are associated with the doctrine of the poor souls of purgatory (in Roman Catholicism) or the intermediate state (in Protestantism and Orthodoxy). Bell tolling is done in honour of the dead.

  3. Veneration of the dead - Wikipedia

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    November 2, (All Souls Day), or "The Day of the Dead", is the day when all of the faithful dead are remembered. On that day, families go to cemeteries to light candles for their dead relatives, leave them flowers, and often to picnic. They also celebrate Suffrage Masses to shorten the time that souls need to leave Purgatory and the enter in ...

  4. Allhallowtide - Wikipedia

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    The Church Militant and the Church Triumphant, fresco by Andrea da Firenze in Santa Maria Novella, c. 1365. Allhallowtide, [1] Hallowtide, [2] Allsaintstide, [3] or the Hallowmas season [4] [5] is the Western Christian season encompassing the triduum of All Saints' Eve (), All Saints' Day (All Hallows') and All Souls' Day, [6] [7] [8] as well as the International Day of Prayer for the ...

  5. Dia de los Muertos, Day of the Dead, All Saints' Day ... - AOL

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    Catholics celebrate All Souls Day, praying for souls in purgatory to be purified. This article originally appeared on Record-Courier: Dia de los Muertos, Day of the Dead, All Saints' Day honor the ...

  6. Day of the Dead - Wikipedia

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    All Saints' Eve / All Hallows' Eve, All Saints' Day / All Hallows' Day, All Souls' Day [1] The Day of the Dead ( Spanish : Día de (los) Muertos ) [ 2 ] [ 3 ] is a holiday traditionally celebrated on November 1 and 2, though other days, such as October 31 or November 6, may be included depending on the locality.

  7. Odilo of Cluny - Wikipedia

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    He also promoted the Truce of God whereby military hostilities were temporarily suspended at certain times for ostensibly religious reasons. Odilo encouraged the formal practice of personal consecration to Mary. He established All Souls' Day (on 2 November) in Cluny and its monasteries as the annual commemoration to pray for all the faithful ...

  8. What is All Saints Day and how do people celebrate it? - AOL

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    The Christian holiday All Saints Day comes every year on Nov. 1. It is considered a holy day of obligation in the Catholic church, said Monsignor Walter Rossi, rector of the Basilica of the ...

  9. Intermediate state (Christianity) - Wikipedia

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    The soul rests in an interspace in which one will experience a manifestation of one's soul resulting in a cold sleep state, awaiting the Day of Judgement. In Islam all human beings go through five steps of age: The age in the world of souls is where a human soul has been created and the soul waits until being imbued into a chosen fetus by an Angel.