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Holy Innocents

male infants slaughtered by Herod. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 179; N.T.: Matthew 2:16–18]

Holy Innocents

infant boys massacred in Bethlehem under Herod. [O.T.: Matthew 2:16–18]
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May Holy Innocents Day make us remember the tyranny of the past, and inspire us to fight tyranny today and in the future.
TABLE 2 Table of Schools on Church Land Catering to Boys Girls English- Holy Innocents' English Boys Holy Innocents' English educated School (Later Montfort School) Girls School (Later CHIJ students 1925 Punggol) 1927 Chinese- Holy Innocents' Chinese Boys Holy Innocents' Chinese educated School (Later Holy Innocents Girls School (Later Hai students High School) 1925 Sing Girls School) 1929 Source: Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary 2012, p.
The murder of the Holy Innocents is a brutal and tragic story--for the children, of course, but for the parents, too.
I could hardly sing, Iwas so overcome with emotion at the transformative nature of that hymn,where men who had done unspeakable things to other human beings couldbecome holy innocents again for a few minutes of an afternoon beforeChristmas, in one of the most unholy places on the planet.
He has served as pastor of Holy Innocents Church in Highland Falls, N.Y., and at Grace Church in Millbrook, N.Y.
Should we not be addressing the wholesale slaughter of all "Holy Innocents"?
However, the performer is in fact still pregnant and the message was simply part of the Spanish equivalent of April Fool's day, Dia de los Santos Inocentes, or Holy Innocents' Day in English.
On the back side chapels, we can still venerate the relics of the Holy Innocents, skulls of thousands of young male children executed by Herod to avoid the loss of his throne and thus history documents the first Christian martyrs.
Which 16th century French astrologer and Quiz of the Day ANSWERS: 1 Letchworth; 2 Holy Innocents' Day; 3 Nostradamus; 4 Romania; 5 Mauritius; 6 Nylon; 7 de Pfeffel; 8 It stimulates the production of antibodies; 9 Soprano; 10 Cornucopia (horn of plenty).
'The Holy Innocents' (Los santos inocentes) will be shown on May 20, 'Crossing borders' (Un franco 14 pesetas) on May 21, and 'Return to Hansala' (Retorno a Hansala) on May 22.
One of the possible times for the boy bishop's liturgical activities was also during the Christmas season: on 28 December, the Feast of the Holy Innocents. Harris has shown in Sacred Folly how in some French dioceses the boy bishop appeared as part of the Feast of Fools observances; perhaps he could be persuaded to pursue that figure with the same skill and enthusiasm he has brought to bear on the Feast of Fools itself.
FEAST OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS 1694: Queen Mary II died from smallpox, leaving William to reign alone.
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