All Saints’ Day is a festival which has
been celebrated in Poland and the rest of the Catholic world for many
centuries. All Saints Day is a national holiday, and a day when people
all over Poland visit the graves of loved ones and to place candles and
flowers on graves. The special candles, which can burn for many hours,
are placed there so that departed souls can find their way through the
darkness. Cemeteries are lit by many hundreds of these candles and at
night the cemeteries can often be seen glowing from long distances. Many
Poles travel long distances to visit family graves and to remember the
dead. The holiday is also sometimes known as the Day of the Dead.
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| All Saints Day, 1st November 1984 in the Beskiel Cemetery, Oswiecim, Poland. Photo credit: John Thaxter - LINK |
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| Photo credit: Adam Warzaw - LINK |
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| Photo credit: Krzysztof Marsolek - LINK |
beautiful
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