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All Saints Day
Honoring all the saints — known and unknown — who have attained heaven.
📅 November 1
✦ Why It Matters
All Saints Day honors all Christian saints in heaven — known and unknown. It grew from early Christian practices of honoring martyrs and was extended to all saints by Pope Gregory IV in 835.
✦ How It Is Observed
Mass and church services, visiting cemeteries, tending graves. In Mexico it merges with Dia de los Muertos; in the Philippines (Undas), families gather at graves with food and candles.
✦ Sacred Text
“After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne.”
— Revelation 7:9 ↗