The day before an important celebration is called eve.
The eve is the day that precedes a certain day . The usual thing is that the notion is used to name the day before a celebration .
Before moving forward with the meaning of the term, it is important to establish its etymological origin. In this case, we have to emphasize that it has Indo-European origin, although the closest thing is Latin, deriving from the word vespera .
For example: "On Christmas Eve, the government announced a salary increase for state employees" , "Campaign activities are prohibited on the eve of elections" , "The young man appeared calm on the eve of the attack, as highlighted his co-workers .
Eve in religion
In religion , the eve refers to the day before an important festival . This is because, for various reasons, activities start a day earlier. There are those who maintain that the origin of these vespers is found in the first years of Christianity, when the faithful were persecuted and had to meet at night. Thus, to celebrate Easter , they would get together the night before and celebrate until dawn.
Christmas Eve , in this sense, is Christmas Eve. Tradition marks that people gather on the night of December 24 to have family dinner and exchange gifts. In this way, when midnight arrives (that is, midnight on December 25 ), they celebrate the beginning of Christmas .
Another important eve is New Year's Eve : the last night of the year. This eve precedes the beginning of a new year and unfolds similarly to Christmas Eve . People gather with their loved ones to welcome, at midnight on January 1 , the beginning of another year.
It is customary to celebrate on Christmas and New Year's Eve.
The term in cinema
Within the field of cinema, we find different productions that use the term in question in their titles. This would be the case, for example, of the film "Halloween Eve" , which was released in 2013 and is part of the horror genre.
It is a film directed by Damien Leone and starring Katie Maguire , Catherine A. Callahan and Mike Giannelli , which begins when a babysitter discovers a video tape in a bag of candy. Curiosity makes him decide to put it in and what he discovers are three stories of deaths that are responsible for a bloodthirsty clown.
That visualization will be the starting point of a series of spooky events that will begin to happen immediately.
Album «All Saints' Eve»
On the other hand, in the musical field we have to highlight the existence of a song that responds to the title "All Saints' Eve" . It is a composition from 2000 that belongs to the Spanish group Los Suaves , led by Yosi Domínguez , and is also the title of the album in which it is part.
This is an album belonging to the rock genre that is made up of nine songs.