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14,000 Holy Infants (Feast Day - December 29)

Synaxarion of the Holy Infants Massacred by Herod 

 

December: Day 29: Teaching 1: Massacre of the 14,000 Holy Infants Slain for the Sake of Christ

 

The Cruelty of Herod Toward the Infants and the Manner of his Death (Eusebius of Caesarea) 

 

St. Gregory of Nyssa on the Massacre of the Innocents  

 

Sermon on the Feast of the Holy Innocents (St. Caesarius of Arles) 

 

Why Did Christ at His Birth Allow Infants to be Slaughtered Because of Him? (St. Photios the Great)

 

First Homily on the Second Day of the Nativity of the Lord (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)

 

Sins That Cry Out To Heaven (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)

 

Homily Two on the Sunday After the Nativity of Christ (St. John of Kronstadt) 

 

Homily on the Second Day of Christmas (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

The Fourteen Thousand Holy Children of Bethlehem (St. Nikolai Velimirovich) 

 

King Herod's Slaughter of the Innocent Infants (St. Nikolai Velimirovich) 

 

On the Death of Children and the Slaughter of the Innocents (St. Paisios the Athonite)

 

Homily on the Protomartyr Stephen and the Slaughter of the Infants (Metr. Nikodemos of Patras)

14,000 Infants (Holy Innocents) Slain by Herod in Bethlehem

The Cave With the Relics of the Holy Innocents in Bethlehem    

 

How Many of the Holy Innocents Were Massacred? 

 

The Slaughter of the Innocents by Herod and the Symbolism of the 14,000 Infants 

 

The Slaughter of the Innocents: Historical Fact or Legendary Fiction? 

 

Why Did Rachel Weep For the Holy Children of Bethlehem? 

 

Macrobius and the Slaughter of the Innocents 

 

An Orthodox Response To the Death of the Innocent 

 

"Massacre of the Innocents" (a silent film from the 1910's) 

 

Hilarion Alfeyev's Christmas Oratorio 24: Rachel's Lament (video)

 

The Only Monastery in the Orthodox World Dedicated to the Holy Innocents

  

Kollyva Art in Honor of the Holy Innocents