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Holy Innocents' Day   /hˈoʊli ˈɪnəsənts deɪ/   Listen
Holy Innocents' Day

noun
1.
December 28, commemorating Herod's slaughter of the children of Bethlehem.  Synonym: Innocents' Day.





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"Holy innocents' day" Quotes from Famous Books



... St. John the Evangelist's Day take precedence of First Holy Innocents' Day / Sunday ...
— Ritual Conformity - Interpretations of the Rubrics of the Prayer-Book • Unknown
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... the "Acta Rectorum" at Leipsic are full of illustrations of the wilder side of student life, from which we extract the story of one unhappy year. The year 1545 opened very badly, says the "Rector's Chronicle," with three homicides. On Holy Innocents' Day, a bachelor was murdered by a skinner in a street riot, and the murderer, though he was seen by some respectable citizens, was allowed to escape. A student who killed a man on the night of the Sunday after the (p. 129) Epiphany was punished by the University ...
— Life in the Medieval University • Robert S. Rait
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