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Thursday, 2 November

Today in Church History

What happened in the life of the Church on this day across twenty centuries.

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✦ Feast Day
Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed
All Souls Day was established by St. Odilo of Cluny in 998 and spread from there to the universal Church. The doctrine of Purgatory — that the faithful dead can be aided by the prayers of the living — underlies this ancient observance.
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