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Halloween actually has its beginnings in the Catholic faith. To remember the lives of their departed saints, people were encouraged to dress up like them on religious holidays. Thus, costuming was born.


29 posted on 11/01/2015 8:03:36 AM PST by ken5050 (Jim DeMint for Speaker)
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Halloween actually has its beginnings in the Catholic faith. To remember the lives of their departed saints, people were encouraged to dress up like them on religious holidays. Thus, costuming was born.

That's not the beginning. It was an ancient Celtic festival adopted by the western church as an act of "inculturation."

100 posted on 11/01/2015 1:17:15 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (The "end of history" will be Worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
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