For the rest of those the dearly departed who didn’t make the cut yesterday for All Saint’s Day, take heart;
remember today is All Souls Day, aka the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (the second day of Día de los Muertos.)
In the late tenth or early eleventh century, Saint Odilo of Cluny decided that All Souls’ Day would take place after All Saints’ Day.
If you need to ask, according to the old ladies who are saying their decades of rosaries in the back of the church, today is dedicated to praying for the souls of the dead so they can leave purgatory and go to heaven with impeccably clean souls.
The Haus of Dcaligari 