The Catholic Church celebrates saints on All Saints\u2019 Day and other departed souls on the next day, called All Souls\u2019 Day. Other Christian denominations do not recognize the Catholic Saints, so they tend to celebrate all departed souls on one or both days. In addition to the ceremonies I noted for All Saints\u2019 Day, common ways of observing All Souls\u2019 Day include ringing bells, lighting candles, and cooking and sharing soul cakes. People leave food out for the dead to eat, have pilgrimages to graveyards to visit dead relatives, and decorated the graves. It is more of an observance than a celebration based on what I\u2019ve read. I\u2019ve never celebrated it, and didn\u2019t even knew it existed until I did some in depth research on All Saints\u2019 Day while preparing to write yesterday\u2019s post. I found All Souls\u2019 Day rather interesting and wanted to share it with you as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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