Holy Innocents' Day facts for kids
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.
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10th-century illuminated manuscript
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Triumph of the Innocents by William Holman Hunt
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The scream from Ramah, 2001 stamp of the Faroe Islands
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