The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-12-28
ALL SAINTS DAY.
How the First Of November Is
Observed in France.
The Last of October Set Apart for the
Cleaning of Tombstones OF Depart
ed Friends in Preparation
for the Morrow.

There is a French proverb which
says that all corn should be sown and
al fruit gathered in before All Saints
day, and that between November and
Christmas there can be neither too
much wind nor too much rain, for both
wind and rain are useful to the crops in
this season. All Saints day. as its
name implies, is celebrated November
1 in honor of all the saints. In the Cath
Ole religion it derives its origin from
the dedication made by Pope Boniface
". in the Pantheon at Rome in COZ.
The old pagan temple was dedicated to
the virgin and to all the martyrs, and
took the name of Our Lady of the
Martyrs. Towards the year Isl Pope
Gregory Ill. erected chapel in honor
of all the saints in the church of st.
Peter, of Rome. Since that time All
Saints day has always been regularly
celebrated in Rome.
In France the holiday was introduced
in the year s37, during the reign of
Louis the Debonaire, on the occasion
of a voyage Pope Gregory " made to
France. 1t was at first adopted only
in Paris, but a few years after its insti-
tuition in that city the French provincial
towns initiated the example set them by
the capital.
The Greek church first celebrated the
holy day in the fourth century. BY its
followers it was observed on the first
Sunday after the Pentecost. But in the
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has always been fixed on November 1.
Plus V. made some great changes in the
service, which he completely rear
ranged All Saints day was celebrated
with greater solemnity and the cere-
mony was adapted to inspire congrega-
tions with more reverence and gravity.
The Encouragement contains some re-
markable passages, such as the grafton
in the mass of Vigilius--O de Spir-
itu-Sancto-and the anthems and re-
sponses in the mass of the day and the
hymn ''Placare Christie Servulis.
After having celebrated the holy day
of all the saints, the church recalls to
the minds of the living that they are tc
pray for the dead. The second day of
November has been set aside, since the
year 1929, as All Souls day.
In France and all CathCi tic countries
it was customary on the last day of Oc-
tober to visit the cemeteries and clean
the tombstones of departed relatives
and friends. 1t is needless to add that
only the very poor classes
abide by this usage. The well-to-do
folks, and even the poor, pay a fee to
have the necessary cleansing operation
performed. The following day, No
vember l, is a general holiday, the |
school doors are opened, the govern
nent offices and the exchanges are
closed. In Paris people generally at
end mass about eleven o'clock, and in |
,he afternoon go to a matinee at some
heater, for they all give TWO perform
lnces Toussaint. as All Saints day is
,alled. In fact, November 1 is reg1l-
ar holiday, and is kept up in exactly
imilar fashion to Sunday 1t is not
my more religious festival nor is it a
loisy holiday Ike carnival or New
Years. day; it is something between the
wo. An honrin the morning is gener-
lily given up to worship and the whole
fternoon to Observation-Disclosures
lg or the races. Only the more reli-
ious portion Of the population thinks Of
ttending vespers at about three o'clock
a the afternoon.
In the French provincial cities the
ay is spent in much the same fashion,
My that the different ways of enjoy
lg oneself are more limited than in the
lodern Babylon, and, therefore, the in
abitants spend perhaps an hour or two
lore in the places of worship.
So, to resume, October 81 is spent. or
lther ought to be, in cleansing the
November l as q general 5
oliday and November as a day given !
? to the dead All Souls day, called ,
French Conmemoration DIES Morris, is t
wv only observed by those whose Z
lsiness or other occupations do moi I
event them from visiting the burial
'ounds. AS a rule, out of every ten ?
.rsons in a cemetery November 2 one |
n count nine women and children to Y
cry one man. Ladies and little girls, +
neither they belong to the rich classes y
the poor, carry a bouquet, generally |
crysanthemums. This they place on h
e tombstoncs, l5neel few moments G
prayer and leave the cemetery with !.
9 words: "A fannee prochaine" (un- Il
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