Although All Saints' Day isn't something that is strictly related to TriCity, but a cultural thing that is cherished all around Poland, I would like to write few words about it.
In other countries people like to dress up and go to parties, and it is well known as Halloween. We have never celebrated this holiday in such way, however the mode for it started sinking in here as well, and you can see more and more kids in costumes searching for candies at peoples' houses.
In Poland All Saints' Day, or Halloween (if you prefer) has more spiritual tone, where people spend the day thinking about their loved ones that passed away. Many people travel across country to be able to lit a candle and put fresh flowers at their graves.
On that day all cemeteries in every city, town or village is flooded with people, thousand of candles is lit. All that light makes cemeteries look beautiful and hopeful, to me anyways. When I look at countless amount of candles lit, I think of it as a souls of our loved ones that are being kept alive because of our love and memory of them.
It makes me feel hopeful, because even if you are gone from this world, there are people that still love and care about you, and even if you can't be there with them in person, you are in their hearts.
I have taken few pictures, however they don't show the beauty of the place, that can be experiance only when being there.
And if you can't get to your loved one's grave, you can still lit a candle in their memory, by the cross in the heart of cemetery.
In other countries people like to dress up and go to parties, and it is well known as Halloween. We have never celebrated this holiday in such way, however the mode for it started sinking in here as well, and you can see more and more kids in costumes searching for candies at peoples' houses.
In Poland All Saints' Day, or Halloween (if you prefer) has more spiritual tone, where people spend the day thinking about their loved ones that passed away. Many people travel across country to be able to lit a candle and put fresh flowers at their graves.
On that day all cemeteries in every city, town or village is flooded with people, thousand of candles is lit. All that light makes cemeteries look beautiful and hopeful, to me anyways. When I look at countless amount of candles lit, I think of it as a souls of our loved ones that are being kept alive because of our love and memory of them.
It makes me feel hopeful, because even if you are gone from this world, there are people that still love and care about you, and even if you can't be there with them in person, you are in their hearts.
I have taken few pictures, however they don't show the beauty of the place, that can be experiance only when being there.
And if you can't get to your loved one's grave, you can still lit a candle in their memory, by the cross in the heart of cemetery.
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