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All Souls' Day   /ɔl soʊlz deɪ/   Listen
All Souls' Day

noun
1.
A day of supplication for all the souls in purgatory.  Synonym: November 2.






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"All souls' day" Quotes from Famous Books



... Haydn's No. 1 vespers (black book). October 30th, Beethoven's mass in C. October 31st, benediction at church All Saints' Day. Requiem and chants. Rossini's "Solenelle" for first time in California. November 1st, Beuhler's mass. November 2d, requiem, All Souls' Day, 2 p.m. November 3d, benediction evening. I sang solo. November 3d, sang requiem at 10 a.m. November 6th, Haydn's 5th mass. Benediction. November 18th, requiem at 8:30. November 20th, Mozart's mass No. 2. November 27th, repeated same mass. ...
— Sixty Years of California Song • Margaret Blake-Alverson

... made an excellent medallion of Dr. Wallace during his lifetime, accepted the commission to fashion the medallion for Westminster Abbey, and it was unveiled, by a happy but undesigned coincidence, on All Souls' Day, November 1 1915, together with medallions to the memory of Sir Joseph Hooker and Lord Lister. In the course of his sermon, the Dean said—and with these words we may well ...
— Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2 (of 2) • James Marchant

... the King of Spain, as that was contrary to the fundamental idea of the Order—its impartiality in its relations to all the Christian Powers. The only condition of service, therefore, that was made was nominal: the Grand Master henceforth was to send, on All Souls' Day, a falcon to the Viceroy of Sicily as a ...
— Knights of Malta, 1523-1798 • R. Cohen

... that the second of November is All Souls' Day, and that it is the day dedicated in the Roman calendar to the commemoration of all those who have departed "in the faith." And few who have traveled on the continent of Europe are not aware that the day is observed in all Southern countries with a degree ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 15, - No. 86, February, 1875 • Various

... for women or young people had to finish very early unless they had a strong escort to go home with, for the streets were far from safe after dark. Giles's great desire to convoy her home, added to Perronel's determination, and on All Souls' Day, while knells were ringing from every church in London, she roused Aldonza from her weeping devotions at her father's grave, and led her to Dennet, who had just finished her round of prayers at the ...
— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte Mary Yonge



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