All Saints’ Day first appeared in a ninth-century English calendar by Pope Gregory IV. This extended the holiday to the entire Catholic church and broadened it to include more than just martyrs ...

But for many Christians, there are a couple more important days on their calendar before December ... Orthodox and associated Eastern Catholic churches, All Saints’ Day is observed on the ...

The list is ordered according to the Church’s calendar of feast days. The pope met ... in 2015 will be added to the Catholic Church’s official list of saints. Credit: Vatican Media Tawadros ...

It also recently added a relic, a holy object which is frequently a bone or garment of a saint, of St. Juan Diego just before the Dec. 12 feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, who appeared to the ...