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DESCRIPTION:It is believed that the commemoration of all the saints on Nove
 mber 1 originated in Ireland\, spread from there to England\, and then to 
 the European continent. That it had reached Rome and had been adopted ther
 e early in the ninth century is attested by a letter of Pope Gregory IV\, 
 who reigned from 828 to 844\, to Emperor Louis the Pious\, urging that suc
 h a festival be observed throughout the Holy Roman Empire. However\, the d
 esire of Christian people to express the intercommunion of the living and 
 the dead in the Body of Christ by a commemoration of those who\, having pr
 ofessed faith in the living Christ during their lives\, had entered into t
 he nearer presence of their Lord\, and especially of those who had crowned
  their profession with heroic deaths\, was far older than the early Middle
  Ages. Gregory Thaumaturgus (the “Wonder Worker”)\, writing before the
  year 270\, refers to the observance of a festival of all martyrs\, though
  he does not date it. A hundred years later\, Ephrem the Deacon mentions s
 uch an observance in Edessa on May 13\; and the patriarch John Chrysostom\
 , who died in 407\, says that a festival of All Saints was observed on the
  first Sunday after Pentecost in Constantinople at the time of his episcop
 ate. The lectionary of the East Syrians set a commemoration of all the sai
 nts on Friday in Easter week. On May 13\, in the year 610\, the Pantheon i
 n Rome—originally a pagan temple dedicated to “all the gods”—was d
 edicated as the Church of St. Mary and All Martyrs.\nAll Saints’ Day is 
 classified in the Prayer Book as a Principal Feast\, taking precedence ove
 r any other day or observance. Among the seven Principal Feasts\, All Sain
 ts’ Day alone may be observed on the following Sunday\, in addition to i
 ts observance on its fixed date. It is also one of the four days particula
 rly recommended in the Prayer Book (page 312) for the administration of Ho
 ly Baptism.
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SUMMARY:All Saints' Day\, Holy Eucharist
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