Meet the Holy Innocents: The ‘Infant Martyrs’ Who Died for Baby Jesus

December 29, 2021 by Web Master

“Massacre of the Innocents,” by Mariano Rossi (1731-1807), in the church Chiesa san Giuseppe alla Lungara, Rome.

In a 2016 letter marking the Feast of the Holy Innocents, Pope Francis acknowledged that “Christmas is also accompanied, whether we like it or not, by tears.”