During All Souls' Day the Catholics are praying for the dead that are in purgatory - the conceptual place where the souls of the people are being cleansed before they can go directly to heaven. The problem is, when a soul left the corpse, according to the Christians, it is thought to still contain the sins that only through prayers can it be cleansed. And so, where on this earth, or otherwise, that this bizarre thinking originate, that these souls may be cleansed by praying.
During 998 AD in the history of the world, the Saint Odilo has been the 5th Benedictine Abbot of the Cluny, which turned out to be the most significant monastery in the Western part of Europe. Based on an essay on the Heiligen a tradition told the pilgrim being shipwrecked on the island after the storm where there he had the vision “of those souls in the purgatory bearing the cleansing pain of the flames as the punishment for the sins”. It was believed as the father of Odilo in Cluny, who had inquired him if there had been any moments in the year prayer would be directed to the deceased’s souls.
On November 2nd, Odilo subsequently founded All Souls' Day in Cluny, and at times after 1030 AD, the date was then adopted in the entire Western church as a yearly holy day celebrating “all those faithful departed” where the sacrifices and prayers are being made to ease the souls being suffered in the purgatory, awaiting for their purification.
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