All Saint's Day

[Not quite all of them here...]

All Saint's Day was a way for the Church (note the big "C", as in the universal church, as in prior to all the schisms) to honor all of the saints who didn't get their own feast day as well as those who are unknown, such as the hundreds of anonymous martyrs who died when Rome outlawed the worrisome new atheistic cult.

Now, you may have no spiritual or cultural connection or affinity to any form of the Christian tradition, but you can still celebrate the date. How many people have died in the name of fearless love and merciful justice, to witness a greater truth about life even at the risk of their own? How many labored, were imprisoned, tortured,  or died anonymously?

Do you value their sacrifices to make a better world?

So go on and take a day to honor them.