Luanda – The All Souls’ Day is celebrated this Monday, 2 November, by the Catholic faithful, following All Saints Day.
Since the century II, some Christians pray for the dead people, by visiting the graves of the martyrs.
This day is celebrated with masses and festivities in homage to dead faithful.
The All Souls’ Day is a date in which families like remembering their late beloved ones.
In Angola, 2 November is a bank holiday and it became a tradition for the Angolan families to pay tribute to their late beloved relatives and friends, with prayers, cleaning of the graves and laying wreaths.
To fulfil with the ritual, a lot of families go to cemeteries, where masses in memory to the dead are also celebrated.