The feast of the Holy Innocents on Dec. 28 — celebrated in the Church as early as the fifth century to recall and honor the children of Bethlehem martyred because of Our Lord shortly after he ...

Dec. 28 was the Feast of the Holy Innocents. Three days after Christmas, the Church recalls those little boys of Bethlehem “two years of age and under” killed by the soldiers of Herod who ...

December 28: Feast of the Holy Innocents John J. Kilgallen December 27, 2007 The story of the Innocents is only two verses long, but serves at least two purposes for Matthew’s story about Jesus.

It first glance, Mario Camus` ”The Holy Innocents” seems to be the film its title would lead one to expect–a portrait of some long-suffering peasants (Spanish peasants, in this ca… ...

Holy Innocents' Day is celebrated every December 28th in several countries. Its origin is religious and is linked to a biblical story, but over time, it has taken on a more humorous character.

But you, you mothers of the Holy Innocents, you whose babies, your young sons, perhaps your 22-month-olds, there you were cradling your children, bloody from the stab wounds inflicted by the soldiers.

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Hurling flour, and eggs dozens of revelers took over the small Spanish town of Ibi as part of a 200-year-old festival marking Holy Innocents Day.