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#OTD The 28th of #December is #Childermass Day or #Holy #Innocents Day - when #Innocent #Children were #Slaughtered by #King #Herod.
In #Literature, #Winter imagery is used for Herod's #Cruelty (Cold, Frost) while the children are like #Botanicals, described as the first #Seeds or the #Flowers of the #Church. The #Poet #Prudentius wrote,
All hail! You infant #Martyr flowers,
Cut off in life's first dawning hours;
Like #Rosebuds snapped in dreadful strife,
When Herod sought our #Savior's life.