More personal is Allerseelen - All Souls' Day on the 2nd of November, the day we remember the dead, by visiting the cemetary and lightening candles. I won't be home this year - bu I might simply light a candle in the window.
Leo
2012-11-02
Allerseelen
I thought I could start with sharing some culture things (that is how I grew up to do it, that means a small catholic village in Swabia (southe west Germany)). You probably all figured that I do not do Halloween simply because it does not exist here. And even though there is the 31st of October which is Reformation Day for the Protestants and there is Allerheiligen - All Saints' Day on 1st of November.
More personal is Allerseelen - All Souls' Day on the 2nd of November, the day we remember the dead, by visiting the cemetary and lightening candles. I won't be home this year - bu I might simply light a candle in the window.
Leo
More personal is Allerseelen - All Souls' Day on the 2nd of November, the day we remember the dead, by visiting the cemetary and lightening candles. I won't be home this year - bu I might simply light a candle in the window.
Leo
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Interesting custom. I'll have to check where Swabia is.
ReplyDeleteI do so love any photos you post of Germany. Some countries, like yours have been through so much sadness its amazing any customs are still followed.
ReplyDeleteMy husbands Mom was about 7 when she and her Mom crossed a river from East Germany to West Germany during the winter. Right around the time the Berlin Wall was going up. Though she is now a naturalized American citizen, the sadness in her voice when she talks of the country she still holds dear in her heart.
blessings, jill