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Halloween

Pope Gregory III

731
Vatican City (then Rome, Roman Empire)

The feast of All Hallows', on its current date in the Western Church, may be traced to Pope Gregory III's (731–741) founding of an oratory in St Peter's for the relics "of the holy apostles and of all saints, martyrs and confessors".


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