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Today is All Saints’ Day – in honour of all saints.

It is celebrated on 1st November by Western Christianity and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Christianity.

History of All Saints’ Day:
By the late fourth century, this common feast was celebrated in Antioch. In the early centuries, this feast was celebrated in the Easter season, and the Eastern Churches, both Catholic and Orthodox, still celebrate it then.
The current date of November 1 was instituted by Pope Gregory III (731-741), when he consecrated a chapel to all the martyrs in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and ordered an annual celebration. This celebration was originally confined to the diocese of Rome, but Pope Gregory IV (827-844) extended the feast to the entire Church and ordered it to be celebrated on November 1.

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