The Narthex
Getting Holy Innocents Right
It is celebrated in red because the children were dead, not because the Family fled
By John M. Grondelski | December 27th 2023 12:36 PMTomorrow, December 28, is the Feast of the Holy Innocents, Martyrs. I make that explicit because in the past few years there has been something like an ecclesiastical version of bait-and-switch in some quarters to change the focus of the feast. Today’s feast is about children: baby boys aged two…
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