2006-10-31 16:41:52 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
All Saints Day. For Roman Catholics, it's a holy day of obligation. November 2 is All Souls Day.
2006-10-31 16:44:08 · answer #1 · answered by solarius 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All Saints Day also known as "All Hallows" Day ( the day before being "All Hallows Eve" or Halloween as it is known today).
Dedicated in order to honor the memory of unnamed saints. The Church dedicated a special feast day -- a sort of "memorial day" -- so that all living Christians would celebrate at a special Mass the lives and witness of those "who have died and gone before us into the presence of the Lord".
This feast that we know as All Saint's Day originated as a feast of All Martyrs, sometime in the 4th century. At first it was celebrated on the first Sunday after Pentecost. It came to be observed on May 13 when Pope St. Boniface IV (608-615) restored and rebuilt for use as a Christian church an ancient Roman temple which pagan Rome had dedicated to "all gods", the Pantheon. The pope re-buried the bones of many martyrs there, and dedicated this Church to the Mother of God and all the Holy Martyrs on May 13, 610.
About a hundred years later, Pope Gregory III (731-741) consecrated a new chapel in the basilica of St. Peter to all saints (not just to the martyrs) on November 1, and he fixed the anniversary of this dedication as the date of the feast.
It's also my birthday. Happy Birthday to me.
2006-10-31 17:07:50 · answer #2 · answered by qwertydog 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The beginning of November and nothing special to many Christians...unless you are speaking of the ones who follow the Pope
2006-10-31 17:42:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All Saints Day
2006-10-31 16:43:01 · answer #4 · answered by October 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All Souls Day or All Saints Day
2006-10-31 16:43:29 · answer #5 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
uh? i geuss since everyone else said it i will to:
All Saints Day.
2006-10-31 16:49:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good one Cork.
2006-10-31 16:45:31 · answer #7 · answered by creationrocks2006 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all saints day
2006-10-31 16:43:12 · answer #8 · answered by Just Wondering 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
all saints day
2006-10-31 16:43:08 · answer #9 · answered by Gwen 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
wednesday
2006-10-31 16:43:27 · answer #10 · answered by cork 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋