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This Christian holy day is observed by many Western churches and by some Eastern churches on the first Sunday after Pentecost. "It is instituted to honour all the saints, known and unknown, and, according to Urban IV, to supply any deficiencies in the faithful's celebration of saints' feasts during the year," according to The Catholic Encyclopedia. In Mexico, altars are assembled in honour of the departed and decorated with flowers and sugar candy skulls, skeleton toys, candles, photographs, bread, chocolate and the favorite food and drink of the departed. Later, families go to the cemeteries and wash the tombstones and then decorate them. It is a family feast which commemorates the dead as it celebrates the living. In Portugal, people celebrate the Day of the Dead by organizing feasts at the cemetery.
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