Each year on November 1, thousands of Filipinos troop to cemeteries to remember their dearly departed. As the tradition in recent years has become commercialized–a national holiday that brings not just families to memorial parks across the country, but giant fast food chains and bazaars as well–
The Sunday Times Magazine in today’s issue looks back at the origins of the practice, which, as it turns out, is an “invitation from Christ for man to become holy.”