All Souls
Dead are honored
All Souls is a Christian feast day commemorating the faithful departed, observed on November 2nd.
The day is dedicated to prayers for souls in purgatory, particularly in Catholic tradition.
All Souls' Day masses were offered for the dead.
All Souls also names churches, cemeteries, and institutions: All Souls College, Oxford.
- eternal restEuphemism for death
- ElegyMourning poem title
- immortalityExemption from death
- dearly departedEuphemism for the dead
- funeral ritesCustoms for honoring deceased
grave offerings · ancestral worship · death masks · mourning customs · ghost stories · holy day · epitaphs · memento mori · memorials · indulgence · afterlife · divine justice · reincarnation · spiritual poetry · Book of Common Prayer · church bells · requiem mass · spiritual transcendence
- church calendarAdvent, Easter Sunday, Lent, Christmas, Pentecost
- OxbridgeOxford, Oxbridge, Oxford University, Cambridge University, Exeter
liturgical focus
All SoulsAll Saints
Feast for beatified collectively
All Saints' Day · All Hallows · Easter · Christmas · Pentecost