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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.

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    Early in the 11th century, a Benedictine Abbot established All Souls' Day as a day to pray for the souls of deceased family members.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Samhain - Wikipedia

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    In the 9th century, the Western Church endorsed 1 November as the date of All Saints' Day, possibly due to the influence of Alcuin or Irish missionaries, and 2 November later became All Souls' Day. It is believed that Samhain and All Saints'/All Souls' influenced each other and the modern Halloween. [5]

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    All Souls Day is a holy day set aside for honoring the dead, primarily celebrated in the Catholic Church. According to Catholic belief, the soul of a person who dies can go to one of three places ...

  7. In some places, it begins on Oct. 31, Halloween, and concludes on Nov. 2, also known as All SoulsDay. Nov. 1 honors deceased children and Nov. 2 focuses on adults.

  8. 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.

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