This is the day we celebrate All Saint's Day each year
What is November 1st
This is the day we celebrate All Soul's Day every year
What is November 2nd
People who the Catholic Church verifies are in heaven with God
What are Saints
In order to be considered for Sainthood, this is the first thing a person must be
What is Dead
The word Halloween comes from which Old English words?
All Hallows' Eve.
True or False - All Saint's Day is a Holy Day of Obligation.
What is True. However, in the United States, if Nov 1st falls on a Saturday or a Monday, the close proximity to Sunday makes it act as a non-Holy Day of Obligation
True or False - All Soul's Day is a Holy Day of Obligation.
What is False
The lord of the living and the dead!
Who Jesus?
The number of verified miracles required to be named a Saint if a person was NOT a martyr
What is 2. If they were a martyr, they only need one!
Halloween is the eve of what holy day of obligation.
All saints day
All Saint's Day is often celebrated however, overshadowed by Halloween, which used to be called
What is All Hallow's Eve
We pray for these individuals on All Soul's Day, to help get them out of Purgatory and into Heaven
What is the Faithfully Departed (all those who have died).
The Patron Saint of France
Who is Saint Joan of Arc
The length of time after a person's death that must pass before their Cause for Canonization can be opened.
What is 5 years.
what liturgical season is Halloween in.
Ordinary time
On All Saint's Day, we commemorate and pray for what individuals
What is Saints, or those who are in Heaven with God
The Spanish name for this celebration of all those who have died
What is Dia de los Muertos
True or False: We worship Saints
What is False. We venerate them and relics of them, but we merely ask them to intercede for us with God, much like you would ask a friend to pray for you.
We call someone this once they have their case for Canonization accepted by the Pope, before any miracles have been attributed to them
What is Vernerable
Candy replaced this item that was originally handed out on Halloween
Soul cake or what we know as doughnuts today.
Represents as a circle or eternity for the shape.
All Saint's Day was originally celebrated in this month, but was moved to its current month of November in the 8th century.
What is May
The place where all souls that still need purification go before heaven.
What is Purgatory?
The Patron Saint of Athletes, this martyr was sentenced to death and shot with arrows but miraculously didn't die. When he recovered, he publicly denounced the emperor and was sentenced to death again
Who is Saint Sebastian
The first pope that officially declared someone canonized.
Pope John XV
This country is often attributed to the origins of Halloween.
What is Ireland?