All Souls' Day
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Oct 8, 2026
Tony WalkerHOST
So I think the 31st.
Tony WalkerHOST
I thought, I thought All S- All Souls Day is the 1st when you remember the dead.
Tony WalkerHOST
All Hallows' Eve is Halloween, the night before it, and it's related of course to, uh, the, uh, Gaelic Samhain, um, end of the summer.
Tony WalkerHOST
Now people say that doesn't mean, um, with the Celtic S- I mean, the Gothic Coligny, not Gothic, Gaulish Coligny calendar h- has Sama.
Phil WatersHOST
Um-
Speedy PetePANELIST
That's like All Saints Day or All S- All Souls Day-
Phil WatersHOST
Something, right?
Speedy PetePANELIST
... or something, something like that.
Hilary FerrerHOST
I gotta, I gotta do a little bit more digging." And I even found some things from the Vatican, uh, back from two thousand and eleven just comparing- Yeah ...
Hilary FerrerHOST
um, November first is their All Saints Day, and November second is All Souls Day.
Hilary FerrerHOST
And All Saints Day- Mm-hmm ... honors all the saints in heaven, um, focusing, celebrating their life with their, um, with God and honoring their example.
Hilary FerrerHOST
Which is totally fine.
Hilary FerrerHOST
Yes.
Hilary FerrerHOST
No. E- yes, exactly.
Hilary FerrerHOST
And November second, which is All Souls Day, which is also related [laughs] to the Day of the Dead, is, uh, is devoted to pray for the faithful, faithfully departed, which you're praying for people that have already died, which we're not supposed to-- I mean, th- that's not helpful.
Hilary FerrerHOST
You-- Th- there-- God already has them.
Randall TuckerHOST
I don't know.
Mary Gamboa TuckerHOST
Um, because of All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day.
Randall TuckerHOST
Oh, oh, that's what I was fixing to read about.
speaker_3GUEST
Oh, okay.
Randall TuckerHOST
All Souls' Day, visiting a church or oratory on November 2nd, All Souls' Day, and reciting an Our Father and the Creed-
Mary Gamboa TuckerHOST
Mm-hmm
Randall TuckerHOST
... that'll get you an indulgence.
Mary Gamboa TuckerHOST
So this is what we were talking about, is that, like, um, what, what is culturally celebrated as Halloween is October 31st, right?
Erica BuistGUEST
And there's lots of explanation about why it's marigolds, but it is, you know, the flower of the dead.
Erica BuistGUEST
And remember, this used to be a month-long festival before the Spanish came and invaded, and moved it to two days in November to try and pass it off as the, you know, the All Saints and All Souls Day festival.
Erica BuistGUEST
Um, this is a month-long festival, so they're essentially trying to cram in this enormous thing into two days because that's what colonizers make you do.
Erica BuistGUEST
But so for one thing, yes, the visual element of it is astonishing, probably stronger than anywhere else that I went.
Anne BoulayNARRATOR
After his death she served the sick in the great hospital, where her body, still perfect and visible, is venerated over the high altar in the choir of the religious which is attached to the wards, and looks down upon the external church, and her memory is blessed among the saints as the seraph of Genoa.
Anne BoulayNARRATOR
H.E. Manning, All Souls' Day, 1858.
Anne BoulayNARRATOR
End of the preface.
Anne BoulayNARRATOR
Chapters 1 through 8 of the Treatise on Purgatory.
Chelsea GuagliardoHOST
Guess that's what we're doing." So, um, I will keep you posted with more information.
Chelsea GuagliardoHOST
Next week we're gonna be talking about ancestors, okay? We're gonna be talking about ancestors because it's October, and obviously we have All Souls' Day, All Saints' Day coming up, Day of the Dead out in Mexico, Festa dei La Morte in Sicily.
Chelsea GuagliardoHOST
It is the month of the ancestors.
Chelsea GuagliardoHOST
And so I wanna talk a little bit about that, and I will end us here.
Martha WrightGUEST
It starts at Samhain.
Martha WrightGUEST
It starts at Halloween or All Souls' Day.
Martha WrightGUEST
And so if you think about like, and then the solstice and the equinoxes are the height of each season.
Catherine CrestaniHOST
Mm-hmm.
Ana MunleyHOST
He set it for November 2nd, the day right after All Saints.
Ana MunleyHOST
The custom spread through the church, and it became All Souls' Day.
Ana MunleyHOST
So by the Middle Ages, Catholics were keeping a three-day season.
Ana MunleyHOST
October 31st was the vigil, the night before.
Ana MunleyHOST
We've got trick-or-treating.
Ana MunleyHOST
In medieval England and parts of Ireland and Scotland, there was a custom called souling.
Ana MunleyHOST
All Hallows' Eve and All Souls' Day, poor people and children went door to door offering to pray for the household's dead in exchange for a small round of cakes called soul cakes.
Ana MunleyHOST
Often, the cakes were marked with a cross.
Casey GeraldGUEST
Your soul has resources that are undefeatable.
Casey GeraldGUEST
And if there's anything in Hoodoo History Month that we ought to be thinking about, if there's anything that we ought to be thinking about close to the Day of the Dead and All Souls Day and Saul Wayne, and the day that Freddie Jackson transitions, we have to remember.
Casey GeraldGUEST
are who we really are.
Casey GeraldGUEST
That's why I lead you to that little kid in Nazareth.
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