Here are a few notable events that happened on this day: Proto-Pietist Johann Arndt died, the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay decided to allow people to celebrate Christmas and not to kill visiting Quakers, and the American Tract Society and Women’s Missionary Union were formed (over 60 years apart).
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We share with all the saints one Lord
Francis of Assisi--part of an altarpiece by Bartolomeo Vivarini, in the Brooklyn Museum
From a mid-15th-century Dutch prayerbook: Saint James the Great; Saint Joseph; Saint Ghislain, abbot of St Ghislain, near Mons; Saint Eligius; Saint Ermes (Hermes)
Gregory the Great and St. Mamertinus, from a 14th-century French translation of Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea
Cologne Cathedral
The clocktower of the Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles church in Saint-Leu-la-Forêt (Val-d'Oise), France
Masaccio, Crucifixion, 1426 (Naples, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte); the blonde figure is Mary Magdalen
Door of Tewkesbury Abbey cloister
Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians
Grateful to the dead 
So now we know when America really started to go down the drain.
Christmas and Quakers. The long descent into ungodliness begins. . . .
Actually I don’t think Quakers celebrated Christmas. . . .