Polish Catholics Honor Deceased On All Saints' Day
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- On the Christian calendar, the beginning of November is a time to remember those who have died. November 1 is All Saints' Day in many churches. November 2 is called All Souls' Day. Parishioners at Saint Adalbert's Catholic Church in Port Richmond marked the occasion on Sunday.
About one hundred people left the 10:30 a.m. mass at Saint Adalbert's, a Polish-Catholic church, and processed through the streets to Saint Peter's Cemetery at Belgrade and Tioga Streets. Jack, a member of the congregation, explained the event which is held every year.
"We are going from this church to a cemetery to put the candles," he said, "and light the candles on the cemetery in the name of those who are close to us and are dead, who are deceased."
The National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown says All Saints' Day is for those souls who have entered heaven. While All Souls' Day, November 2, is a day to remember all those who remain in purgatory.
