Halloween, All Saints and All Souls... what about that again?

#Halloween , #Allerheiligen and #Allerzielen follow each other neatly. Halloween falls on October 31st, All Saints falls on November 1st and All Souls on November 2nd. Halloween is an old kettic custom for New Year's celebration. All Saints and All Souls both commemorations around death are part of the Roman Catholic faith.

In the Celtic calendar, the year began on November 1, so October 31 was New Year's Eve. The harvest was then inside, the seeds for the next year were ready and so there was time for a day off, the Celtic New Year or Samhain (statement Saun, which also became the Irish word for November). All Saints Traditionally falls on the day after Halloween.

The roots of Halloween lie with the Old Celts, who on October 31, rang New Year's Eve and believed that with New Year the spirits of all the dead of the past year would rise up to take possession of a living body. To keep evil spirits out of the door, the Celts wore (scary) masks. Probably there lies the origin of the costume tradition on Halloween. When Christian faith increased in popularity and Catholic missionaries also reached the Celts, Celtic Old and New was renamed All Saints. All Saints now traditionally begins on the evening of 31 October and lasts until 1 November midnight.

All Saints -1 November - on which all the saints (more than one hundred thousand) of the Roman Catholic Church are jointly revered and commemorated. A saint is a title awarded in Christianity to deceased persons who have lived particularly righteous and faithful. The festival has been celebrated since the eighth century. On All Souls (November 2) all those who died are commemorated. All Saints and All Souls are the days when the subjects of death and life after death are discussed in the Roman Catholic Church.

All souls - November- the Church commemorates all deceased believers. The tradition, insofar as it is known from the abbey of Cluny (Frankish Empire monastery), where in 998 abbot Odilo stipulated that all monasteries connected to Cluny were to commemorate the deceased in a special liturgical way on the day after All Saints. In the 14th century, this memorial day became common in the Roman Catholic Church.