All saints and
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All Saints and All Souls Day
in Italy
In November in Italy there are two important religious feasts :
- La Festa Di Ognissanti (All Saints Day)
and - Il Giorno Dei Morti
(All Souls Day)
These days are very important in the Catholic tradition
La Festa di Ognissanti, (or the All Saints Feast)
is celebrated on November 1st,
and it celebrates all the Saints of the Catholic calendar.
This day is a public holiday and all the schools
are closed.
Il Giorno Dei Morti (or the All Souls Day)
is celebrated on November 2nd
It represents an important feast
People believe that their dearly departed will visit them on that day.
In this day families go to cemeteries
with candles and flowers
and pray for their dead loved ones.
There are many popular traditions on this day.
The rituals are diferent in several parts of the Country.
In some parts of North Italy
people leave a bottle of fresh water and a little bread in the kitchen for the whole night,
so that the dead can drink and eat
Some people used to offer biscuits, made with sugar and honey,
known as the "ossi dei morti" (the bones of the dead), to their lovers.
In Sicily
people let kids believe that if they pray and they are good they will then receive gifts from dead
people.