Feast
Holy Innocents
- Feast day
- December 28
Life
This feast commemorates the infant boys of Bethlehem who were killed by King Herod in his attempt to destroy the newborn Messiah, an event recounted in the Gospel of Matthew. Venerated since the early centuries of the Church as the first martyrs for Christ, they died in the place of the child Jesus. Their feast falls within the Octave of Christmas.
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