ALL-HALLOWS

ALL-HALLOWS. See All-Saints.

All-Goat. See CHENOPODIUM.

All-Heal. See HERACLEUM and STACHYS.

All-Saints, in the calendar, denotes a festival celebrated on the first of November, in commemoration of all the saints in general; which is otherwise called All-hallows. The number of saints being so excessively multiplied, it was found too burdensome to dedicate a feast-day to each. In reality, there are not days enough, scarce hours enough, in the year, for this purpose. Hence an expedient was had recourse to, by commemorating such in the lump as had not their own days. Boniface IV. in the ninth century, introduced

All-Saints the feast of All Saints in Italy, which was soon after adopted into the other churches.

All-Saints Bay, a spacious harbour near St Salvador in Brazil, in S. America, on the Atlantic Ocean. W. long. 40°, S. lat. 12°.

All-Souls, in the calendar, denotes a feast-day, held on the second of November, in commemoration of all the faithful deceased.—The feast of All-Souls was first introduced in the eleventh century, by Odilon abbot of Cluny, who enjoined it on his own order; but it was not long before it became adopted by the neighbouring churches.