Polish Culture Newsletter - All Saints Day

[Jaga]

Poles celebrate November 1st, as the All Saints Day. This day is a holiday. During November 1st weekend everybody is on the road since people want to visit the graves of their family members located sometimes far from the town they live.
Poles also celebrate All Souls' Day on November 2nd.
The Halloween tradition is becoming slightly more popular among young people who participate in the parties and dress in funny and scary costumes wearing face masks. But I doubt it would ever take over All Saints Day in Polish tradition.
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Many articles devoted to All Saints Day are listed in the directory:

www.polishsite.us/index.php/customs-and-religion/saints-and-patrons.html

Below are some of the newer articles:

All Saints' Day Celebration in Poland: Polish Cemeteries
www.polishsite.us/index.php/customs-and-religion/saints-and-patrons/354.html

Polish Cemeteries: History, Styles and Regional Differences
www.polishsite.us/index.php/customs-and-religion/saints-and-patrons/355.html

All Saints' Day in Poland
www.polishsite.us/index.php/customs-and-religion/saints-and-patrons/9.html

Polish Folk Traditions: All Souls' Day (Zaduszki and Dziady)
www.polishsite.us/index.php/customs-and-religion/pagan-traditions/100.html
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Issue October 27, 2010
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[wayneprice]

Jaga,

On my first trip to Poland for the army, I went over our halloween holiday, and can remember the drive in the evening from Krakow down to Zakopane. The magic of the twinkling lights of the candles in all of the cemeteries will remain with me forever. It really is a magical time..............
is something we don't see

[PolishMama]

We celebrate All Saints Day here in the US as part of our polish heritage. I make it a point to explain the tradition to my children. We would always visit the grave of a loved one but since we moved far away, we visit the local graveyard and place a flower and candle at a couple of random graves and say prayers for their souls, hoping maybe some kind Pole will do the same for our departed loved ones. Who knows, maybe my children will have this imprinted in their memories and do the same for me and my husband when we pass...