Toussaint

Toussaint
Fra Angelico, The precursors of Christ with the saints and martyrs, 1423-1424
Observed	the Catholic
Type	Religious Celebration
Meaning	Celebration of All Saints
Date	November 1
Observances	prayers
Related	Commemoration of Faithful Departed

All Saints is a Catholic festival celebrated on November ¹ , during which the Roman Catholic Church honoring all saints , known and unknown ^History

This festival has long held after the Easter holidays or after Pentecost. In ^the fifth century , it is celebrated in Syria on Friday of Easter

. It is a festival pass, transition, it lasts a week, three days before and three days later. It is both the beginning of the new year and the end of the ending. It is marked by druidic rites, assemblies, banquets and drinking rituals. She has the distinction of being open to the Otherworld (the sidh Irish) and thus enhance the ratio of men with the gods. It is found in Gaul under the name Samonios (the word means the month that roughly corresponds to November), as evidenced by the Coligny Calendar.

After the transformation of the Roman Pantheon into a Christian shrine, the Pope Boniface IV consecrated, 13 May 610 , under the name of the church and St. Mary-of-martyrs. Boniface IV and wanted to commemorate all the Christian martyrs whose bodies were honored at Yasukuni. The Feast of All Saints was then celebrated May 13, the anniversary of the dedication of this church dedicated to the martyrs .

It is perhaps from the ^eighth century it was celebrated on November ^1, when Pope Gregory III Dedication in honor of All Saints, a chapel of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome .

On the advice of Gregory IV , Emperor Louis the Pious instituted the feast of All Saints throughout the Empire Carolingian ^Significance

This festival is based on biblical texts such as, inter alia, the Apocalypse of John (Rev., 7, 2-14), the first letter of John (ch. 3) and the Gospel according to St. Matthew (c. 5, 1-12) on the Beatitudes ( Mt 5. 1-12 ).

It is dedicated to all saints. "This group not only celebrating all saints canonized, that is to say those which the Church provides, hiring authority, they are in the Glory of God, but also all those who in fact and Many more are in the divine beatitude "(Dom Robert Le Gall) . It is therefore all persons canonized or not, who have been sanctified by the exercise of charity, the host of mercy and the gift of divine grace . This festival reminds all the faithful, the universal vocation to holiness .

The Saints should not be confused with the Commemoration of the faithful departed , celebrated the next day. The latter is a legacy of monastic reading the "roll of the dead": the mention of the brothers of a monastery or a religious order, the anniversary of their deaths. It was inaugurated by Odilon, Abbot of Cluny in the ^eleventh century.

However, the fact that in France, November ^1, All Saints Day is a holiday, the use is established to commemorate the dead that day instead of 2 November, as evidenced by the centuries-old tradition of candles and candles in the cemeteries, and since the ^nineteenth century and the flowering, with chrysanthemums , tombs on All Saints Day (event particularly well represented in the painting La Toussaint painter Emile Friant ), both gestures symbolizing the happy life after death.

Saints Holidays

During the period of Toussaint, the entire peasant family, including children, had gathered to hand harvest the potatoes. During the harvest, which applies only to the northern hemisphere, many children were missing school, where the progressive introduction of autumn holidays once called "holiday sweet" .

Regional sayings about the weather in early November

These traditional sayings, sometimes questionable, do reflect a reality that for temperate countries of the northern hemisphere :

• "From the Saint Michel Toussaint, plowing full speed" or "All Saints, sow your seed," "to Halloween, arm sleeves, gloves on hands" to "All Saints wheat sown, the fruit also enclosed (or fruit tight).

• "At All Saints, began the summer of St. Martin "or otherwise" to Halloween, cold winter comes back and puts the train. "

• "If it snows to Halloween, the winter will be cold but" if it's sunny to Halloween, the winter will be early, "" Toussaint such as Christmas, "" frost to Halloween, Christmas unhealthy " , "as many hours of sun to Halloween, many weeks to blow into his hands," according to the time of All Saints, winter is unhealthy or not. "

• "From Toussaint to the end of Advent, never too much rain or wind" or "between All Saints and Christmas can not brag too much rain," "the wind blows three quarters of the year as he blows the eve of All Saints " .

Related articles

• The Commemoration of All Souls , November 2
• The Feast of the Reformation , October 31
• Halloween , Oct. 31
• Samain
• O-bon in Japan

Sources

• Theo, for all the Catholic Encyclopedia, ed. Mame, Paris, 2009
• All Saints and All Souls' Day
• Dom Robert Le Gall, Dictionary of Liturgy, published by CLD, Reed 2001, 278 pages
• Christian-J. Guyonvarc'h and Franoise Le Roux , The Celtic Festivals, Ouest-France University, al. "From time immemorial: the history, Rennes, 1995, ( ISBN 2-7373-1198-7 ).

References and notes

External link

• All Saints for a child of the fifties , a short poem by Pierre Perrin Chassagne