Martyr · 1st century
14 000 Holy Innocents
Also known as The Infants slain by Herod at Bethlehem
The children killed by King Herod in his attempt to destroy the newborn Christ.
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Notes
Named numerical group kept as one row.
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints