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.

On Dec. 28, the Church remembers the Massacre — the killing — of the Holy Innocents in Bethlehem. We are three days past Christmas Day, and yet two of those days have already been feasts of ...

If we go by popular English Yuletide songs, today is the third day of Christmas, known in English as Childermas, short for Mass of the Holy Innocents. Ironically enough, the song Twelve Days of ...

One of them is the Day of the Holy Innocents, which is celebrated on December 28 every year. The Day of the Holy Innocent December has multiple celebrations marked on the calendar.

The Holy Innocents did not know Jesus, but they died in his place. Dec. 28 marks the feast of these baby boys who are, today, recognized as the first martyrs and pro-life patron saints.

Tomorrow, Dec. 28, is Holy Innocents’ Day, in remembrance of the baby boys in Bethlehem—niños inocentes, as we refer to them in Spanish—slaughtered on orders of King Herod after hearing about the ...

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 ...