The octave of Christmas begins on Christmas itself ... and the feast of the Holy Innocents, Dec. 28. As the Book of Acts recounts, St. Stephen was a deacon who was the first martyr after the ...

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 ...

(Matthew 2:16-18) The Feast of the Holy Innocents feels jarring in the midst of the joys of the Christmas Octave, beginning with the Birth of Christ and ending with the Solemnity of Mary ...

The octave of Christmas begins on the feast of ... except during St. Stephen’s feast day and the feast of the Holy Innocents, when they wear red. We’ve all heard the Christmas carol ...