All Saints' Day
Post-Halloween holy day
All Saints' Day is a Christian feast day honoring all saints, known and unknown, observed on November 1st in Western churches.
It follows Halloween (All Hallows' Eve) and precedes All Souls' Day.
The day is a holy day of obligation in Roman Catholicism, requiring Mass attendance: We always went to church on All Saints' Day.
Serious, dignified quality
- feastElaborate ceremonial meal
- massQuantity of matter
- vespersEvening devotional service
- litanyProlonged repetitive account
procession · vigil · observance · liturgy · prayer · worship · November · church
Those killed for convictions
- ancestorsThose from whom one descends
- soulsImmaterial human essences
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
tribute · homage · legacy · canonized · beatified · venerated · honored · deceased
Place for interring remains
- gravesBurial sites
- flowersPlant reproductive structures
- candlesWax lights with wicks
- chrysanthemumsOrnamental fall-blooming flowers
tombstones · offerings · visiting · cleaning · decorating · marigolds · lanterns · bread
solemnity
Serious, dignified quality
litany · procession · vigil · observance · liturgy · prayer · worship · November · church · catholic
martyrs
Those killed for convictions
- ancestorsThose from whom one descends
- soulsImmaterial human essences
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
remembrance · tribute · homage · legacy · canonized · beatified · venerated · honored · deceased · faithful
cemetery
Place for interring remains
chrysanthemums · tombstones · offerings · visiting · cleaning · decorating · marigolds · lanterns · bread · ofrenda
sanctity
Quality of being inviolable
piety · consecrated · blessed · divine · spiritual · sacrament · altar · chapel · shrine · pilgrimage
- holidaysChristmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Valentine's Day
- feast daysSt. Patrick's Day, St. Valentine's Day, St. George's Day, St. Andrew's Day, St. Stephen's Day
- holy daysEaster Sunday, holy day, Easter Week, Christmas Eve, sabbath day
All Saints' Daybirthday
Annual date of origin
christening · baptism day · celebration of life · Mother's Day · Valentine's Day
All Saints' DayHalloween
October 31st festival
Devil's Night · Black Mass · Samhain · Mischief Night · witches' sabbath