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What does All Saints Day mean to Catholics and when did people begin celebrating it? |
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Halloween is the evening before All Saints' Day. The word comes from medieval England's All Hallows' eve or Hallowmas. The word was later shortened to Halloween. October 31 was celebrated with traditional games and customs. Traditionally beggars would go from door to door asking for cakes in exchange for prayers for the dead. This is one source of the modern tradition of trick-or-treating comes from. All Saint’s Day was a feast of the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, and a day on which churches glorify God for all God's saints, known and unknown.
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