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Innocents’ Day and the new Herods of today

By Bobit S. Avila | December 28, 2012 - 12:00am

In a clear act of charity and mercy and to ensure that Christians all over the world would never forget so that innocent children wouldn’t die in vain, the Catholic Church always commemorates the day when the...

Freeman Opinion

The Feast of the Holy Innocents

By ROSES AND THORNS | By Alejandro R. Roces | December 29, 2005 - 12:00am

Yesterday was Holy Innocents Day, the feast of the children. When Herod learned about the birth of Christ, he ordered all children less than 2 years of age killed to make sure that Jesus did not survive. The Holy...

Opinion

Holy Innocents’ Day

By ROSES AND THORNS | By Alejandro R. Roces | December 28, 2002 - 12:00am

If we go by popular English Yuletide songs, today is the third day of Christmas, known in English as Childermas, short for Mass of the Holy Innocents. Ironically enough, the song Twelve Days of Christmas makes no...

Opinion

Today’s innocents are our streetchildren - ROSES AND THORNS By Alejandro R. Roces

December 28, 2000 - 12:00am

During the Spanish period, the day used to be celebrated as Holy Innocents’ Day. It commemorated the Massacre of the Innocents, the slaughter of all the male children...

Opinion

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