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Innocents

Feast of the Holy Innocents. The 28th December, to commemorate Herod's butchery of the children of Bethlehem under two years old, with the design of cutting off the infant Jesus (Matt. ii. 16.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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