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  • 1All Saints — For the British girl group, see All Saints (band). Infobox Holiday holiday name = All Saints type = Christian caption = Painting by Fra Angelico official name = Feast of All Saints nickname = All Hallows Day observedby = Eastern Christians Roman… …

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  • 2Eve of a Feast — • In the first ages, during the night before every feast, a vigil was kept. In the evening the faithful assembled in the place or church where the feast was to be celebrated and prepared themselves by prayers, readings from Holy Writ (now the… …

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  • 3Patron Saints — • Statistics on popular titular patrons of churches in Rome, Belgium, and English speaking countries. Short lists of some national patrons and patron saints of professional occupations Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Patron Saints      …

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  • 4Feast of Saints Peter and Paul — The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, or properly the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, is a feast commemorating the martyrdom at Rome of the apostles St. Peter and Paul of Tarsus, observed on June 29. The celebration is of ancient origin, the… …

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  • 5Calendar of saints (Anglican Church of Southern Africa) — The Calendar of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa is published in An Anglican Prayer Book 1989. [ cite book | last = The Provincial Trustees of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa | title = An Anglican Prayer Book 1989 | publisher =… …

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  • 6Calendar of saints — The Calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with one or more saints, and referring to the day as that saint s feast day. The system arose from the very… …

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  • 7hallow-e'en — n.; (also hallow even) Eve or vigil of All Saints, the night of 31st October …

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  • 8Fasting and abstinence in the Roman Catholic Church — For Roman Catholics, fasting is the reduction of one s intake of food to one full meal a day. This may or may not be accompanied by abstinence from meat when eating. The Roman Catholic Church teaches that all people are obliged by God to perform… …

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  • 9Liturgical year — For Dom Guéranger s series of books, see The Liturgical Year. Christian year redirects here. For John Keble s series of poems, see The Christian Year. Part of a series on Christianity …

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  • 10Halloween — This article is about the holiday. For other uses, see Halloween (disambiguation). Halloween All Hallows Eve …

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