Totensonntag
Totensonntag (German: [ˈtoːtn̩zɔntaːk] ⓘ, Sunday of the Dead), also called Ewigkeitssonntag (Eternity Sunday) or Totenfest, is a Protestant religious holiday in Germany and Switzerland, commemorating the faithfully departed. It falls the last Sunday of the liturgical year in the Protestant Church in Germany and the Protestantse Kerk in The Netherlands.
| Totensonntag | |
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A congregation of the United States-based denomination Evangelical and Reformed Church observing Totensonntag by lighting votive candles in memory of the faithful departed | |
| Also called | Ewigkeitssonntag Totenfest |
| Observed by | Lutherans and Reformed in Germany |
| Significance | Remembrance of the Faithful Departed |
| Observances | church services, praying for the dead, lighting votive candles, visiting cemeteries and graveyards |
| Date | First Advent Sunday - 7 days |
| Related to | Allhallowtide, Advent |
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