In Western Christianity, All Souls’ Day, also known as the Commemoration of All Faithful Departed, is observed principally in the Catholic Church, although some churches of Anglican Communion and the Old Catholic Churches also celebrate it; 

the observance is the third day of Hallowmas also known as Halloween and annually occurs on November 2.

The official name of the celebration in the Roman Rite liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church is “The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed”.

Another popular name in English is Feast of All Souls. In some other languages the celebration is known as Day of the Dead or the day of calling upon the dead.

This same celebration was used in the ancient Rome to involve or include the spirits of the dead into the human activities which occurs in the earth.


All souls’ day pertaining to the human desire and emotional attachment to the dead or lost one’s in one’s family. And thus; People always return to the graves of their dead ones to seek comfort, to remember or to retrieve the memory of their lost ones (also known as the art of necromancy).


At the Reformation the celebration of All Souls’ Day was fused with All Saints’ Day in the Church of England, though it was renewed individually in certain churches in connection with the Catholic Revival of the 19th century.