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    All Souls' Day, also called The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, is a day of prayer and remembrance for the faithful departed, observed by Christians...
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    The Well of Souls (Arabic: بئر الأرواح, romanized: Biʾr al-Arwaḥ; sometimes translated Pit of Souls, Cave of Spirits, or Well of Spirits), is a partly...
    16 KB (1,923 words) - 10:54, 22 May 2024
  • "Souls of the Departed" is the twelfth episode and midseason premiere of the fifth season of the American fantasy drama series Once Upon a Time, which...
    13 KB (1,839 words) - 14:47, 5 April 2024
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    purification after death. All Soul's Day, established in the 10th century, turned popular attention to the condition of departed souls. While the idea of Purgatory...
    34 KB (4,545 words) - 19:35, 22 May 2024
  • take on the duties of defending humans from evil spirits and guiding departed souls to the afterlife. In addition to adapting the manga series it is based...
    70 KB (6,336 words) - 08:40, 30 April 2024
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    All Souls College (official name: College of the Souls of All the Faithful Departed) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England....
    37 KB (3,477 words) - 09:50, 24 May 2024
  • take on the duties of defending humans from evil spirits and guiding departed souls to the afterlife, and set him on journeys to various ghostly realms...
    92 KB (8,434 words) - 02:21, 24 May 2024
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    the ceremony is done—offering black sesame and water as oblation to departed souls. This oblation is offered to father, grandfather, great-grandfather...
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  • Holy Soul may also refer to: All Souls (disambiguation), in particular Church penitent, souls in Purgatory Society of the Helpers of the Holy Souls Church...
    487 bytes (100 words) - 02:44, 2 November 2023
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    compline of 1 November. It is thus the day before All Souls' Day, which commemorates the faithful departed. In many traditions, All Saints' Day is part of the...
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    and/or arranging burial in a planned manner; some considered the fate of departed souls to be fixed and unchangeable (e.g. ancient Mesopotamia) and considered...
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    Hinduism, the agents of Yama, the god of the netherworld. They carry the departed souls of human beings who had not achieved moksha to Yamaloka, the underworld...
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  • friends. But the Peace Organization picks up his scent. 11 "For All Departed Souls" November 23, 2023 (2023-11-23) Kaede finds Kento and, alarmed by his...
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    (1494–1536) argued against Thomas More in favor of soul sleep: And ye, in putting them [the departed souls] in heaven, hell and purgatory, destroy the arguments...
    125 KB (16,671 words) - 23:44, 9 April 2024
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    saints as intercessors with God; the latter also believes in prayer for departed souls in Purgatory. Other religious groups, however, consider veneration of...
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  • the closest relatives make a sacred offering to deities so that the departed soul may enter Svarga. In Hindu mythology, Parashurama offered a tarpana...
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  • together, they create a symbol of land and sky or heaven and earth. Departed souls were believed to travel to the home of Wākea. If they proved themselves...
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    return the Kiss when I draw my dying breath." "Saint Joseph, Patron of departed souls – pray for me. (Mention your intention) Amen." Older copies of the prayer...
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    have originally represented souls of the dead; jack-o'-lanterns were used to ward off evil spirits. On All Saints' and All Souls' Day during the 19th century...
    172 KB (18,978 words) - 04:00, 7 May 2024
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    peace. Every Hindu must perform a specific ritualistic homage for the departed souls of their ancestors this requires them to undertake pilgrimage to the...
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