Holy Innocents' Day
Holy Innocents is on December 28. It remembers the killing of the male children of Bethlehem by Herod, as recorded in the Gospel of Matthew. It is not known exactly when the church began celebrating this event. The first mention of the day dates to the year 485.[1]
Holy Innocents' Day Media
Giotto, Massacre of the Innocents
François-Joseph Navez, The massacre of the innocents, 1824
The scream from Ramah, 2001 stamp of the Faroe Islands
The Massacre of the Innocents at Bethlehem, by Matteo di Giovanni
Triumph of the Innocents by William Holman Hunt
Related pages
References
- ↑ Holweck, Frederick (1910). "Holy Innocents". Catholic Encyclopedia. Retrieved December 25, 2012.
