All Souls Day

"Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife."
- St. Leo the Great (d. 461)

Today is the feast of All Souls. This feast came about in the 11th century when St. Odilo, the abbot of Cluny, France, ordered that all Clunaic monasteries say special prayers for the dead and sing the Office of the Dead on November 2, the day after All Saints Day. Eventually, the whole Church adopted this observance. 

All You Holy Souls, pray for us!

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http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/saint.aspx?id=1187

http://www.wf-f.org/AllSouls.html