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- In Italy worship of the saints is very strong. The patron saint of a town or community is considered to be its protector. His or her saint's day is a religious holiday on which schools, offices and most shops are closed. It is celebrated with a special mass and processions. In towns and cities illuminations are put up and there are stalls and sometimes a fair, in a mixture of the sacred and the secular.
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- (or Ognissanti) Public holiday and religious festival celebrating all the saints. Typically, cakes made with nuts and raisins, which vary from region to region, are eaten during this festival. People go to the cemetery to take flowers for their dead loved ones, although the Festival of the Dead (I Morti) is the following day, 2nd November, which is not a holiday.
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- (or Ognissanti) Public holiday and religious festival celebrating all the saints. Typically, cakes made with nuts and raisins, which vary from region to region, are eaten during this festival. People go to the cemetery to take flowers for their dead loved ones, although the Festival of the Dead (I Morti) is the following day, 2nd November, which is not a holiday.
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- In Italy worship of the saints is very strong. The patron saint of a town or community is considered to be its protector. His or her saint's day is a religious holiday on which schools, offices and most shops are closed. It is celebrated with a special mass and processions. In towns and cities illuminations are put up and there are stalls and sometimes a fair, in a mixture of the sacred and the secular.


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