All Saints' Day Definition

noun
November 1, the day on which a Christian feast honoring all the saints is observed.
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An annual church festival (Nov. 1) in honor of all the saints.
Webster's New World

The Christian festival, held November 1, that commemorates all the saints (especially, in many churches, those who have died in the preceding year)

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pronoun

In Christian tradition, the annual feast day celebrating the life of all saints on the first day of November.

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All Saints' Day Sentence Examples

  • Pope Boniface IV declared November 1 to be All Saints Day.

  • These three festivals, known as All Hallows Eve, All Saints Day and All Souls Day, became known as Hallowmas.

  • In the 800's, Pope Boniface IV moved All Saints Day from May 13 to November 1, thus blurring the two celebrations together.

  • The popular feeling for the first time found expression when Luther, on All Saints day 1517, nailed to a church door in Wittenberg the theses in which he contested the doctrine Luther which lay at the root of the scandalous traffic in indulgences carried on in the popes name by Tetzel and his like.

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