O All Souls' Day in Brazil and in many countries it is celebrated on November 2nd since your official creation by Catholic Church Roman Apostolic what 998 AD – in the 10th century, in Middle Agestime of great influence of the Church in society. This year, the French abbot Odilo of Cluny (994-1048) made the date mandatory in honor of the dead in all monasteries, according to the Vatican.
Years later, em 1915o Papa Bento 15 granted permission to priests to celebrate several masses that day. According to the official source of the Catholic Church, its liturgy is aimed at highlighting a victory of Jesus about sin and death.
But because the Church chose precisely the beginning of November to revere the dead? The choice of this time of year is linked to the incorporation of pagan celebrations, so much so that Previously, Catholics already celebrated their deceased on the third day after someone's death and then seven and 30 days later – something done to this day, as explained on the Vatican.
In the Middle Ages, however, the Church decided to create some specific dates precisely for incorporate and modify a celebration good oldest and with many followers in Europe – only pagan, carried out by the Celts: the Samhain.
O Samhain era a ritual practiced for more than 2 thousand years by the Celtic people from Central Europe on the day October 31 (a place that today encompasses several countries such as Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales, Holland, Denmark, among others), as explained by the knowledge platform on world history).
The Celts were a pagan people who believed in different gods and in legends. For them, Samhain (between autumn and winter in the Northern Hemisphere) was a special period of harvesting and preparing for winteralso a time when the world of the gods became visible and there was a supernatural intensityso much so that the spirits of the dead come out of their tombs and they walked on the special night of the 31st, says the historical source.
