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 ...

In a 2016 letter marking the Feast of the Holy Innocents, Pope Francis acknowledged that “Christmas is also accompanied, whether we like it or not, by tears.” "Massacre of the Innocents," by ...

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 ...

Amid the festivities and rejoicing over the birth of Jesus Christ, we mark today the feast of the Holy Innocents. Scripture tells us that King Herod had learned from the magi about the birth of a ...

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. Their ...