
A man rides a horse through a bonfire as part of a ritual in honor of Saint Anthony the Abbot, the patron saint of domestic animals, in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain. On the eve of Saint Anthony's Day, dozens ride their horses through the narrow cobblestone streets of the small village of San Bartolome during the "Luminarias," a tradition that dates back 500 years and is meant to purify the animals with the smoke of the bonfires and protect them for the year to come.
A man stands beside graves on All Saints Day, a Catholic holiday to reflect on the saints and deceased relatives, at the La Almudena cemetery in Madrid, Spain.
Relatives gather around some of the graves illuminated by candles during All Saints Day at the cemetery in Vilnius, Lithuania. Candles illuminated tombstones in graveyards across Europe as people communed with the souls of the dead, observing one of the most sacred days in the Catholic calendar.
Candles are lit during All Saints Day at the cemetery in Vilnius in Vilnius, Lithuania. Candles illuminated tombstones in graveyards across Europe as people communed with the souls of the dead observing one of the most sacred days in the Catholic calendar.
Candles and flowers are placed at graves during All Saints Day in Felsotarkany Cemetery, some 150 kms northeast of Budapest, Hungary.
A young man arranges skeletons on a Day of the Dead altar at a tent encampment at Multifamiliar Tlalpan, where nine people died when a building collapsed in the Sept. earthquake, in Mexico City. People in Mexico are marking this year’s holiday by remembering the people killed in the Sept. 19 earthquake.
People clean a grave during All Saints Day, a Catholic holiday to reflect on the saints and deceased relatives, at the Montjuic cemetery in Barcelona, Spain.
Neighbors of slain teenager Kian Loyd delos Santos, center, light candles at his crypt in the traditional observance of All Saints Day, the honoring of the dead among Catholics all over the world in suburban Caloocan city north of Manila, Philippines. The killing of Kian by police in the so-called war on drugs by President Rodrigo Duterte, has sparked protests and condemnation from civil society groups and prompted an investigation by the Philippine Senate.
Christians light candles at a relative's grave on All Saints Day, in Ranchi. All Saints Day is marked as a feast day celebrated on November 1 by Anglicans and Roman Catholics worldwide.
Thousands of crosses are lit with candles to pay tribute to the departed soldiers in observance of All Saints Day at the Heroes Cemetery in suburban Taguig city, east of Manila, Philippines.
People walk past graves at the Old Powazki cemetery in Warsaw, Poland. Candles illuminated tombstones in graveyards across Poland as people communed with the souls of the dead on All Saints' Day.
People stop in front of the graves of some of the Warsaw 1944 Uprising insurgents at the Powazki cemetery in Warsaw, Poland. Candles illuminated tombstones in graveyards across Poland as people communed with the souls of the dead on All Saints' Day, observing one of the most sacred days in the calendar for this deeply Catholic nation.
Thousands of Filipinos throng to Manila's North Cemetery, under a slight downpour, to pay tribute to their departed loved ones in observance of All Saints Day in Manila, Philippines.