All Saints Day POLAND 2023 | A walk through Cmentarz Rakowicki for Wszystkich Świętych, KRAKOW

Poland does not celebrate Halloween, but Poland sets its cemeteries 'on fire' and those cemeteries are the most beautiful places to be at the beginning of November.
1st November- All Saints' Day and 2nd November - All Souls' Day are days when almost everyone visits graves of their family members. The gravestones are decorated with colorful chrysanthemums in full bloom (in Poland those flowers are associated with this particular occasion) and millions of grave candles (zniczy), which symbolize the presence of God and reminds of the prayer that has been said in a moment of reflexion for those who passed before us.
This Christian celebration of All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day roots in a belief that there is a powerful spiritual bond between those in heaven and the living.
Those days are national holidays in Poland. This special time of the year creates a very melancholic atmosphere full of spiritual contemplation about those who are not with us in this world anymore.
If you are planning a trip anywhere in Poland at the beginning of November - make sure to have a look at how beautiful and full of light are Polish cemeteries.

[@WalkingandTalkingAussieGirl]

I love how the poles remember their loved ones

[@mikerobinson3899]

I love poland

[@wandajunka8459]

I love Poland 🇵🇱♥

[@tammarramma]

this is whaythis is what Poles do when rest of the World have fun on Halloween parties, we remembering our loved ones and memory of them.

[@heniakonas9439]

Halloween is an American import and totally pagan.

[@igorwoek502]

That's not true. It's two separate dates. Halloween is on 31st of October, All Saints Day on 1st of November...

[@mikerobinson3899]

I want to go to Poland again

[@anemarie5554]

This holiday comes from ancient Slavic rites, described by Adam Mickiewicz in the second part of "Forefathers' Eve". It was such a powerful tradition that the church was unable to combat it, so it adopted it in some way. Fires were once lit, and candles are a remnant of that.
"It's dark everywhere, deaf everywhere,
What will it be, what will it be?"
This sentence is familiar to every Pole who paid attention in class. We don't have to follow foreign customs, we have our own.

[@SLAVIC.761]

🤛

[@glazadam]

Piękne

[@ligeatkwong-jedrzejczak1499]

Thanks Ged.

[@planetkrakow]

Very welcome

[@lucianoburdzy425]

Thank you for that beautiful video. I liked priest singing and kds talkings

[@phyllisblinn2335]

Thank you for visiting again.

[@planetkrakow]

Always welcomep

[@gabrielbartos-ou2uy]

ZA MOICH CZASÓW BYŁO WIĘCEJ, palilismy na grobach czy śię znał tego kogoś czy nie...

[@gabrielbartos-ou2uy]

@@M3rl1n177 Człowieku!!! znałeś tych biednych żołnierzy co polegli za twoją wolność, albo osoby co zgineły w wypadku , albo zgineli tragicznie a byli z twojego otoczenia???? widzisz taki jesteś bochater, wstyd...

[@gabrielbartos-ou2uy]

@@M3rl1n177 Po druge , " modlitwa" , ma temu komuś pomóź , czy go znałeś czy nie....

[@charonboat6394]

"Za moich czasów"- odpoczywaj w pokoju duszo błądząca.

[@SLAVIC.761]

candles on these days are an echo of ancient pre-Christian Slavic customs. Then bonfires were lit in cemeteries between the barrows and at road bends. around November 1 and 2 was the day of worship of Slavic ancestors.

[@stanislawkowal4657]

Not a great deal to say other than other than a truly poignant evening.

[@Roman-hj1ip]

❤❤❤ Poezja.

[@edwardkaras1776]

Victim of communism gets the most candles, I wonder why?

[@ewam9606]

7:12 That period od Polish history is like a wound that will never heal, it was a period od pure terror, extreme poverty, many had to flee to other countries to stay alive. IT affected almost all families in one way or another, the only people who didn't suffer were the ones who worked for the communist government. This is a way to say "we remember" and "never again".

[@gabrielbartos-ou2uy]

Bo walczy za wolną polskę,zeby ludzie mogli zyć jak ludzie,,,,,,, Weil der für Freiheit kämfte, das die Leute normal leben können. Grüsse aus Düsseldorf

[@wiolettad7029]

Dziwne pytanie.🤦😅(skierowane do edwardkaras ).

[@basbas768]

You answered your question yourself. People always remember victims. Besides who deserves a candle more? Victims or their killers?

[@mieteksnopowiazaka5359]

Communism and Nazism are two sides of the same coin. Unfortunately, Poland had to be in the middle, between the Soviet WKP(b) and the German NSDAP, and later their miserable minions who were Poles only in name.