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 ...

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 ...

Today, December 28, is the Feast of the Holy Innocents in the Western Church. We Orthodox observe it on December 29. This past summer, I was taken into a cave under the Church of the Nativity in ...

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 ...