All Saints Day originated from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, which marked the start of the Celtic new year. Pope Gregory IV established All Saints Day in 834 AD as a church-wide day to honor deceased relatives. In Poland, All Saints Day is primarily associated with visiting cemeteries to pray for the dead and light candles at gravesites. The Catholic Catechism describes All Saints Day ceremonies as connecting believers to Christ and each other. Cemeteries in Polish tradition symbolize the end of one stage of the journey to eternity.

1. All Saints DayAll Saints Day

2. TradiotionTradiotion
• The tradition of All Saints Day has its orgins
in the ancient Celtic festival of "Samhain"
(the death of the body). For our ancestors it
started the new year. We have to remember
that the Celts were farmers and their
harriest for sawing winter crops began
around November. The feast of All Saints
put in place for the whole church Gregory
IV in 834 as a memory of the dead relatives.

3. All Saints Day in PolandAll Saints Day in Poland
• All Saints Day in
Poland is associated
primanly with visits to
cmenteries, and
prayers for the dead
and lightening candles
on the graves.

4. All Saints DayAll Saints Day
• All Saints Day is a christian festival
celebrated in the honour of all the saints,
known and unknown.

5. The Catholic CatechismThe Catholic Catechism
• The Catholic Catechism consiely describes
this ceremonion among believers, by witch
we are connected to Christ and thus to
one another.

6. MEMORY and FAITHMEMORY and FAITH
In the Polish tradition cemeteries are
the symbol of the end of a certain stage of
the road to eternity. One of the signs at
the entrance to the cemetery in the village
of Serpelice emphatically reminds:
„Here ends the greatness of the world”

7. MEMORY and FAITHMEMORY and FAITH
In the Polish tradition cemeteries are
the symbol of the end of a certain stage of
the road to eternity. One of the signs at
the entrance to the cemetery in the village
of Serpelice emphatically reminds:
„Here ends the greatness of the world”