Nevada Day
Nevada became a state on this date.
What is October 31, 1864?
The original name for Halloween.
What is All Hallows' Eve?
I was a young Italian teenager who loved computer programming, video games, and creating a website to catalog Eucharistic miracles before dying of leukemia.
Who is Saint Carlo Acutis?
While All Saints' Day honors those already in Heaven, All Souls' Day is dedicated to praying for the faithful departed who are currently in this place of purification.
What is Purgatory?
The name of our ship.
What is the Disney Dream?
Nevada earned this nickname due to its establishment during the Civil War.
What is the "Battle Born State"?
Folklore says that breaking one of these brings seven years of bad luck.
What is a mirror?
Because she was blindfolded and martyred, this saint is often depicted holding a dish containing a pair of eyes.
Who is St. Lucy?
This is the exact date on which the Catholic Church celebrates All Souls' Day every year.
What is November 2nd?
Who are Maggie and Penny?
The Comstock Lode was discovered in this city.
What is Virginia City?
This animated friendly ghost made his debut in comics back in 1945.
Who is Casper?
I survived a concentration camp after volunteering to take the place of a stranger marked for execution.
Who is St. Maximilian Kolbe?
This is the liturgical color traditionally worn by priests on All Souls' Day, symbolizing mourning and hope in the resurrection.
What is Black (or Violet/Purple)?
Name four soft-serve flavors.
What are vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, and banana?
Sing the state song.
What is:
Home means Nevada,
Home means the hills,
Home means the sage and the pines.
Out by the Truckee's silvery rills,
Out where the sun always shines,
There is the land that I love the best,
Fairer than all I can see.
Right in the heart of the golden west,
Home means Nevada to me
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In Mexico, there’s Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), when families put pictures of loved ones on this.
What is an ofrenda?
This is the liturgical vestment color worn by priests on All Saints' Day to symbolize joy, purity, and triumph.
What is white? (Or gold).
This Old Testament book, often omitted in Protestant Bibles, explicitly praises praying for the dead so that they may be delivered from their sins.
What is Second Maccabees (2 Maccabees)?
The names of our two dinner servers.
Who are Drago and Sebastian?
In 1864, the longest telegram in history was telegraphed to Abraham Lincoln to send him this legal document in Washington, D.C.
What is the Nevada Constitution?
Jack Skellington is the "Pumpkin King" of Halloween Town in this stop-motion animated movie.
What is The Nightmare Before Christmas?
This major Gospel reading from Matthew chapter 5, listing the "Blesseds," is always read during the Mass on All Saints' Day.
What are the Beatitudes?
Because they cannot pray for themselves to change their status, the souls in Purgatory rely heavily on this type of prayer from us.
What is Intercessory prayer?
We were at this restaurant when Dominoe and Vinny announced they had a stow-away.
What is Animator's Palate?