When do Protestants worldwide decorate graves?

[Red Gold]

Catholics worldwide decorate graves specially around All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day

When do Protestants worldwide decorate graves?

Never ever - or on some other day?

 

[bekkilyn]

Catholics worldwide decorate graves specially around All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day

When do Protestants worldwide decorate graves?

Never ever - or on some other day?

It's probably going to depend on the church and the days that are meaningful for them. Decorating graves at Homecoming seems to be fairly popular in my area, but otherwise I've seen decorations get switched around on a day when the church comes together to clean up the grounds and cemetery, and also individual families might do decorating on days that their family members have passed. It seems like every week I notice something different going on in the cemetery!

 

[Basil the Great]

Many/most in the United States do so for Memorial Day, though some also decorate for Easter and/or for Christmas.

 

[Robban]

Catholics worldwide decorate graves specially around All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day

When do Protestants worldwide decorate graves?

Never ever - or on some other day?

If you were to come by where I live on that day, evening or night.

you would see many graves with lights burning on them.

Grave lights are being sold in shops now.

I would think it is more tradition for people in general.

 

[Nithavela]

Mostly on the death date of the people who were buried, or maybe on some other day of personal significance. Or, if the person is buried at a place further away, whenever it is convenient. My mothers parents are buried in a city about 100 kilometers from where we live, so every time we travelled to that city (next biggest city) for shooping, christmas market or whatever, we visited the graveyard and cleaned up the grave and left a few decorations. We don't do that anymore.

 

[Sketcher]

My family checks up on the family grave on Memorial Day. Flowers are planted there.

I honestly question the value in leaving items that don't grow on a grave.

 

[Albion]

Catholics worldwide decorate graves specially around All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day

When do Protestants worldwide decorate graves?

Whenever they have the opportunity and the inclination. It is not believed that there is only one special day for remembering those who have gone before us.

As has been said already, Memorial Day is the established day in the USA for visiting and decorating the graves of veterans, but as has been said already, it seems also to have become the day when many people visit the graves of any persons who were important to them in life.

 

[Robban]

Example.

 

[Red Gold]

Thank you very much for all your answers!
I was asking as here in our part of Germany (in Baden-Württemberg) the First of November is a public holiday.

And many people visit cemeteries and churchyard on that day.

I will write more about it later.