Toussaint

la Toussaint (FR N-F) All Saints Day. Catholic religious observance (1 Nov.) the day after Halloween (31 Oct.). The holiday originated in ancient Celtic observances of the passage of the year from summer to winter (the only two seasons in the Celtic calendar). The same day was also reserved for communication between the living and the dead. Pope Gregory IV (papacy 827 – 844) declared the day in the year 837 as a Christian replacement for old pagan observances. It is the Christian commemoration…