All Souls' Day is commemorated every year on Nov. 2 as a day for honoring the dead.

The tradition of All Souls' Day began in 998 AD and was popularized by French monks who designated a specific day for remembering the dead. Although the celebrations started as a local festival, they soon spread throughout the Catholic Church during the next century.

All Souls' Day, also known as the feast of all souls is celebrated on the day following All Saints Day and the Catholic Church considers it as a day dedicated in remembrance of all the "faithfully departed".

According to the catholic belief, the soul of a person who dies can go to one of three places-heaven, purgatory, and hell. Catholics believe that heaven is the place reserved for a person who dies without any sin while those who die in a state of mortal sin are condemned to hell. According to beliefs, the souls of those who have minor sins but are free of mortal sins go to purgatory. On All Souls' Day, the Catholic Church encourages the community to remember the dead and pray for the souls in purgatory so that they can enter heaven.

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Here are some quotes for remembering the departed on All Souls Day:

  1. "Deep down inside we always seek for our departed loved ones." - Munia Khan
  2. "When you lose someone you love, you gain an angel you know."- Unknown
  3. "The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
  4. "The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  5. "Death is a part of life and when we accept it, we come to know eternal life!" - Unknown
  6. "The world's an inn, and death the journey's end." - John Dryden
  7. "No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away."- Terry Pratchett
  8. "For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity." - William Penn
  9. "Is death the last sleep? No--it is the last and final awakening."- Sir Walter Scott
  10. "God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath." - John Donne
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