The Christian holiday All Saints Day comes every year on Nov. 1. It is considered a holy day of obligation in the Catholic church, said Monsignor Walter Rossi, rector of the Basilica of the ...

The name of the festival, which takes place on 31 October, has changed since being incorporated as part of the Christian holiday All Saints' Day, to become All Saints' Eve or All Hallows' Eve ...

But on Friday, Christians in many countries around the world are celebrating All Saints’ Day, a somber and spiritual day in the church’s liturgical calendar that shares pagan roots with Halloween.

Every year on November 1, All Saints' Day is observed to honor all saints in heaven. It follows Halloween and precedes All Souls' Day, forming Allhallowtide. The day involves visiting cemeteries ...

On the solemnity of All Saints on Nov. 1 ... another papal custom during the week of All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days. On Sunday, Nov. 3, Pope Francis will again lead the Angelus in St ...

Today is the feast of All Saints, when we celebrate all those holy men and women who intercede for us in heaven. Despite what some non-Catholic critics claim, we don’t worship the saints the way ...

People attend mass at Rome's Verano cemetery on All Saints' Day in November 2015. Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI / AFP Italy celebrates All Saints’ Day, or ‘Ognissanti’, on Friday, November 1st. But how ...

It is meant to be a sacred day of prayer. But for us, All Saints’ Day is when we all troop to the cemeteries to pay our respects to our deceased loved ones. It is a happy occasion as the day ...