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ALL SOULS' See also:DAY (Commemoratio omnium fidelium defunctorum), the day set apart in the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church for the See also:commemoration of the faithful departed. The celebration is based on the See also:doctrine that the souls of the faithful which at See also:death have not been cleansed from venial sins, or have not atoned for past transgressions, cannot attain the Beatific See also:Vision, and that they may be helped to do so by See also:prayer and by the See also:sacrifice of the See also:mass. The feast falls on the 2nd of See also:November; or on the 3rd if the 2nd is a See also:Sunday or a festival of the first class. The practice of setting apart a See also:special day `for intercession for certain of the faithful departed is•of See also:great antiquity; but the See also:establishment of a feast of See also:general intercession was in the first instance due to Odilo, See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot of See also:Cluny (d. 1048). The See also:legend connected with its See also:foundation is given by See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter See also:Damiani in his See also:Life of St Odilo. According to this, a See also:pilgrim returning from the See also:Holy See also:Land was See also:cast by a See also:storm on a desolate See also:island where dwelt a' See also:hermit. From him he learned that amid the rocks was a chasm communicating with See also:purgatory, from which See also:rose perpetually the groans of tortured souls, the hermit asserting that he had also heard the demons complaining of the efficacy of the prayers of the faithful, and especially of the monks of Cluny, in rescuing their victims. On returning See also:home the pilgrim hastened to inform the abbot of Cluny, who forthwith set apart the 2nd of November as a day of intercession on the See also:part of his community for all the souls in purgatory. The See also:decree ordaining the celebration is printed in the Bollandist Ada Sanctorum (Saec. VI., pt. i. p. 585). From Cluny the See also:custom spread to the other houses of the Cluniac See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, was soon adopted in several dioceses in See also:France, and spread thence throughout the Western Church. At the See also:Reformation the celebration of All Souls' Day was abolished in the Church of See also:England, though it has been renewed in certain churches in connexion with the " Catholic revival." Among See also:continental Protestants its tradition has been more tenaciously maintained. Even See also:Luther's See also:influence was not sufficient to abolish its celebration in See also:Saxony during his lifetime; and, though its ecclesiastical See also:sanction lapsed before See also:long even in the Lutheran Church, its memory survives strongly in popular custom. Just as it is the custom of See also:French See also:people, of all ranks and See also:creeds, to decorate the See also:graves of their dead on the jour See also:des tnorts,so in See also:Germany the people stream to the See also:grave-yards once a See also:year with offerings of See also:flowers.
Certain popular beliefs connected with All Souls' Day are of See also:pagan origin and immemorial antiquity. Thus the dead are believed by the peasantry of many Catholic countries to return to their former homes on All Souls' See also:night and partake of the See also:food of the living. In See also:Tirol cakes are See also:left for them on the table and the See also:room kept warm for their comfort. In See also:Brittany the people See also:flock into the cemeteries at nightfall to kneel See also:bare-headed at the graves of their loved ones, and to fill the hollow of the tombstone with holy See also:water or to pour libations of See also:milk upon it, and at bedtime the supper is left on the table for the soul's refreshment.
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