What Is All Staits Day?

Question

My school has put me in charge of prep.ing food for an All Staits Day party but I don't know mush about it.

I know its the start of THE DAY OF THE DAY but apart from that I have no clue what to do for this Holiday.

Please HELP
What food should I make How do I decor.

Sorry about the Spelling I was in a rush

Answer 1

It is November 1. The Catholics invented this day to celebrate all the dead saints because they had canonized so many that all 365 days were holidays. So they came to the conclusion it would be simpler to just celebrate them all on one day especially the petty ones. They still celebrate major saints' holidays. This is the of course the day after Halloween (All Hallows Eve) which is the pagan celebration of the dead. So the Vatican basically made a Christian Holiday out of a pagan one.

Answer 2

Do you mean All Saints Day? That is November 1st.
I am not aware of any special food for the day. Can you explain more?

Otherwise, I would put out "party" food- chips, dip, veggies, snacks, etc.

I am a bit confused. I didn't know All Saints Day was celebrated with parties!

The following day is All Souls Day - Nov. 2nd. That is the day (at least in the Catholic Church) that the souls of the departed are remembered.

Answer 3

all saints day is the day after all hallows eve (AKA Halloween) and the day before all souls day. All souls day was a day of celebration of all that had passed, kind of a link to the underworld. All Saints day is a celebration of all the Saints, kind of like a link to Heaven. You could easily do a lot of things that you would for Halloween - things like bobbing for apples, pumpkin pie etc. keep it like autumn. You could also use food to celebrate specific Saints - things like clover cookies for Saint Patrick, animal crackers for Saint Francis of Assisi, or go more obscure with chicken fingers for Saint Walstan (patron saint of farm animals).

I also think you are referring to Dia de los Muertos (day of the dead) which is a Latin American tradition, it's the day after All Saints Day. I'm not an expert but I know that, traditionally, cakes and sugar are used a lot in celebration and families will have altars and picnics at grave sites dedicated to their lost family members,

Answer 4

In the sixth century, Pope Boniface IV accepted the Pantheon as a gift from the Emperor Phocas and proclaimed May 13, 610 Feast of All Holy Martyrs held. He dedicated it as the Church of Santa Maria Rotonda in honor of the Blessed Virgin and all martyrs.

During Pope Gregory III's reign, the festival was expanded to include all saints and a chapel in St. Peter's church was dedicated accordingly. In 835, Pope Gregory IV changed the date to November 1 and the name to Feast of All Saints.

All Saints' Day, feast of the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, and day on which churches glorify God for all God's saints, known and unknown. It is celebrated on Nov. 1 in the West, since Pope Gregory IV ordered its church-wide observance in 835. Its origin lies earlier in the common commemorations of martyrs who died in groups or whose names were unknown, which were held on various days in different parts of the Church; over time these celebrations came to include not only the martyrs but all saints. During the Reformation the Protestant churches understood “saints” in its New Testament usage as including all believers and reinterpreted the feast of All Saints as a celebration of the unity of the entire Church. In medieval England the festival was known as All Hallows, hence the name Halloween [=All Hallows' eve] for the preceding evening.

Just a note to add though.....Halloween was originally Samhain (the Pagan New Year) so SOME believe that the church moved All Saints Day to Nov. 1 to override or surplant The Pagan holiday because celebrating Halloween was seen as blasphemous. Samhain is also a day of remembrance for lost loved ones as well as the beginning of the Pagan new year.

Answer 5

if it is all saints day, it is a holy day of obligation. all commemorates all saints in the year. why November 1st was chosen it is the Celtic new year and to get the Celts into the church they gave the Celts there holiday to honor all saints

Answer 6

Here are some pictures of a Saint's day party.

http://www.pitt.edu/~sorc/oratory/Pictures/2006/AllSaintsDayParty/AllSaintsDayParty2.html

And here are some recipes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/news_and_events/events_halloween.shtml

Hope that helps, good luck with the party.

Answer 7

Do you mean "All Saints Day"?

Answer 8

Do you mean All SAINTS Day??

Answer 9

is it all SAINTS day?

if it is all saint's day it's like day of the dead and Halloween.