All Saints painting: The Forerunners of Christ with Saints and Martyrs.
Significance:
All Saints' Day is a solemnity celebrated by the Catholic Church and several Protestant denominations, and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, in honour of all the saints, known and unknown.
Type:
Christianity
Celebrations:
Performing or watching the play Don Juan Tenorio; as a child: going door-to-door, to receive cakes, nuts and pomegranates; visiting the graves of family dead; cleaning and repairing the graves; offering prayers, flowers, candles, and food; playing music or singing karaoke; taking flowers to the graves of dead relatives; lighting candles on the graves or at home; playing the hymn "For All the Saints" by Walsham How; singing the song "I Sing a Song of the Saints of God"
Observed by:
Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglican Communion, Lutheranism and Methodism.
Legal holiday in:
Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Chile, Croatia, France, parts of Germany, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, parts of Switzerland
Location:
World
Synonyms:
All Hallows, Solemnity of All Saints, Feast of All Saints