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All Saints Day
Newest Review: ... lad. Each of these stories tells you about the people whose lives I celebrate every year on All Saints Day, although the point of the exercise is not particularly about their lives or their relevance, but about the relevance of remembering and celebrating those people that helped us to become who we are. Many of the people I meet at All Saints celebrations are people with no religion, many strong believers, many who have huge question marks about belief, though the one thing that they all have in common is that each of them, just as each reader that reads this review, has their own story, and for me All Saints Day is a time of importance a... more |
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All Saints Day: A time to remember. (1507 words)
by thingywhatsit - written on 31.10.06 (Very useful, 260 readings)
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Today leads to a very special day here in France which is All Saints Day, although what leads towards this day is something that attracts people of many different religions, and people with no religion at all, and the mention of All Saints here in France does not make us think immediately of church. Here, All Saints Day is a special getting together of relatives from all corners of France, to trace their roots, and come back to decorate the graves of distant relatives, friends, and to generally look back at times gone by in a celebration of life, rather than death. I have lived here for many years now, and during the course of that time, several people that I ...
