{"id":989,"date":"2025-11-02T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/?p=989"},"modified":"2025-11-02T16:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T16:00:06","slug":"all-souls-day-november-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/all-souls-day-november-2nd\/","title":{"rendered":"All Souls Day \u2013 November 2nd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2021-11-02-12.04.53-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of window sill with skulls, Chrysanthemums  and pictures of remembrance\" class=\"wp-image-3792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2021-11-02-12.04.53-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2021-11-02-12.04.53-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2021-11-02-12.04.53-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2021-11-02-12.04.53-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2021-11-02-12.04.53-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">El Dia de los Muertos &#8211; All Souls Day, in Haggerston, London. Photo K Flude.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today is the Mexican Day of the Dead. In fact, the second day of El Dia de Muertos. Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bonifacio.hernandezperez\/videos\/1504661859891688\/?sfnsn=scwspwa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video<\/a> from Mexico, which you will enjoy for its Latin song and images of the Day of the Dead in Mexico. (It&#8217;s on Facebook, so may not work unless you have a login). And here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HtdUV3cDW0w\">YouTube explanation<\/a> of celebrations in Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today is the day to celebrate all those loved ones who have passed away. To keep them in mind, to remind you that you still care about them. It is the third day of the season of Allhallowstide, following All Hallows Evening (Halloween), and All Saint&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beata, who comes from Poland, tells me that, November the 1st is the day when relatives visit the cemeteries of the dead. Loved ones bringing chrysanthemums to decorate the graves. It&#8217;s a happy day for the dead because they are being remembered and visited. Today, November 2nd, is a more sombre day &#8211; a day to stay at home and think of the loved ones.  Perhaps looking through albums of photographs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Souling<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In England, it was the time of year in which &#8216;Souling&#8217; used to take place. Households made soul-cakes. Children or people in need of food come to visit and are given soul cakes in exchange for praying for the dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Soul, soul, for a souling cake.<br>I pray good Missus for a souling cake.<br>Apple or pear, plum or cherry.<br>Anything good to make us merry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traditional rhyme from Shropshire and Cheshire<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Moving on from Purgatory<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This is based upon the idea of Purgatory, and the belief that intervention on Earth can influence the amount of time an ancestor spends in purgatory for their sins. John Aubrey (1626 \u2013 1697), antiquarian, collector of folklore and writer, mentions a custom in Hereford which shows a variant of the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"330\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/John_Aubrey.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/John_Aubrey.jpg 330w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/John_Aubrey-260x300.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">John Aubrey (Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>In the County of Hereford was an old Custom at Funerals, to hire poor people, who were to take upon them all the Sins of the part deceased. One of them I remember (he was a long, lean, lamentable poor rascal). The manner was that when a Corpse was brought out of the house and laid on the Bier; a Loaf of bread was brought out and delivered to the Sin-eater over the corps, as also a Mazer-bowl full of beer, which he was to drink up, and sixpence in money, in consideration whereof he took upon him all the Sins of the Defunct, and freed him (or her) from Walking after they were dead.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Aubrey, <em>Remains of Gentilism<\/em> 1688<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This belief in the power of action in the Here and Now to lubricate passage through Purgatory to the Ever After was a major part of fund-raising for Catholic Institutions before the Reformation. For example, in the records of St Thomas Hospital, Southwark, a wealthy widow called Alice (de Bregerake &#8211; if I remember the spelling correctly) left her wealth to the hospital in return for an annual Rose rent; lifetime accommodation in the Hospital in Southwark, and for the monks and nuns to pray for her soul and the souls of her ancestors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purgatory was not a settled thing in Catholic Theology before the 12th Century or so. However, the idea that prayers for the dead could be useful dates back before the Roman period. Catholics took 2 Maccabees as their biblical authority for Purgatory. But Luther demoted Maccabees to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biblical_apocrypha\">apocrypha<\/a>&#8220;. And today the Anglicans view it as &#8216;useful&#8217; but not to be used for &#8216;doctrine.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"649\" height=\"899\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Carracci-Purgatory.jpg\" alt=\"Ludovico Carracci: English: An Angel Frees the Souls of Purgatory (Wikipedia)\" class=\"wp-image-3793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Carracci-Purgatory.jpg 649w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Carracci-Purgatory-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/en:Ludovico_Carracci\">Ludovico Carracci<\/a>: English: An Angel Frees the Souls of Purgatory 1610  (Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>All Souls, London<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One of London&#8217;s most beautiful churches is dedicated to All Souls. It is All Souls, Langham Place. It is just near the BBC HQ and on a wonderful site, as it is on a bend in Regent&#8217;s Street. This shows it to great advantage. The architect was John Nash (1824) as part of his transformation of the West End with his boulevard from Regent&#8217;s Park south to Westminster. As he could not get all the property owners on the alignment of the road to sell him the land, he disguised this enforced bend with a magnificent Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/800px-Church_of_All_Souls-2-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/800px-Church_of_All_Souls-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/800px-Church_of_All_Souls-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/800px-Church_of_All_Souls-2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/800px-Church_of_All_Souls-2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">All Souls Langham Place By David Castor (dcastor) &#8211; Own work, Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=6516081<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"746\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BBC_jun_19_02-1024x746.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BBC_jun_19_02-1024x746.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BBC_jun_19_02-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BBC_jun_19_02-768x560.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BBC_jun_19_02-1536x1119.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BBC_jun_19_02.jpg 1806w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Regent&#8217;s Street looking north to All Souls (photo K Flude)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>See my posts on <a href=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/31st-october-2021-halloween\/\">Halloween<\/a> and, and All Hallows Day <a href=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/all-hallows-day-november-1st\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Revised 2nd November 2025,  2024, 2023 and first published 2nd Nov 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the Mexican Day of the Dead. In fact, the second day of El Dia de Muertos. Here is a video from Mexico, which you will enjoy for its Latin song and images of the Day of the Dead in Mexico. (It&#8217;s on Facebook, so may not work unless you have a login). And &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/all-souls-day-november-2nd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;All Souls Day \u2013 November 2nd&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[112,728,116,119,430,321,115,23,412,10,16,1020,257,322],"tags":[2316,2313,2311,1010,114,2315,2312],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-almanac-of-the-past","category-art-history","category-calendar","category-christian-heritage","category-churches","category-europe","category-folklore","category-heritage","category-italy","category-medieval","category-modern","category-poland","category-stuarts","category-uk","tag-2-maccabees","tag-all-souls-church-langham-place","tag-all-souls-day","tag-dia-de-muertos","tag-folklore","tag-luther","tag-the-day-of-the-dead"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>All Souls Day \u2013 November 2nd - And Did Those Feet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"All Souls Day, El Dia de Muerto, the 2nd Day of the Dead in Mexico. 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