St Peter's Church

Phibsborough

Holy Innocents

Calendar
When:
28th December 2019 @ 10:30 am – 11:00 am
2019-12-28T10:30:00+00:00
2019-12-28T11:00:00+00:00
Christmas
Holy Innocents

In the New Testament, the Massacre of the Innocents is the incident in the nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew (2:16-18) in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem. The Church considers the children murdered in Jesus’s stead as the first Christian martyrs, and their feast – Holy Innocents Day (or the Feast of the Holy Innocents) – is celebrated on 28 December.[2]