IF you were walking were past the graveyard at Holy Trinity Church in Henley on Halloween you may have noticed that it was bathed in candlelight.
Ellie Perryer and a friend had put a lit candle on top of the graves, which is a Swedish tradition for marking All Saints’ Day.
She says: “A lot of people stopped to talk to us and one woman asked me to contact the paper about it.”
In 731 AD, November 1 was designated a day of remembrance for saints of the church who had no days of their own. From the 11th century, November 2 was dedicated to all the dead and was called All Souls’ Day.
In 1772, All Saints’ Day in Sweden was moved to the first Sunday in November and in 1953 to one Saturday between October 31 and November 6.
The tradition of putting lighted candles on the graves of the departed on All Saints’ Day began in the 1900s.
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