28th of December - Holy Innocents Day
28th of December is the 362nd day of the year
Holy Innocents Day:
Holy Innocent’s Day commemorates the event just after the birth of Christ when Herod, King of Judea, ordered all children in Bethlehem aged two or under to be put to death. Herod had learned from the Magi, who had called on him on their way to seek the figure, that a new King of the Jews, thus a rival to him, was to be born at that place and time. Joseph, Mary and Jesus fled to Egypt, evading Herod’s forces. For fairly obvious reasons December 28th was in the past held to be a particularly unlucky day, many trades refusing to carry out any work then. For children it could be good or bad: some felt that children should be treated with great lenience on Holy Innocents’ Day, and even allowed them to play in church – the election of ‘Boy Bishops’ often took place then; others marked its significance by waking them with a beating.
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