Holy Innocents
A Manual for Christians, 1838Source and notes
Source
| Printed in | A Manual for Christians, containing Prayers and Holy Precepts, selected from Catholic Authors, confirmed by Examples; to which are added Instructions for Youth, and an Abridged Catechism. |
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| Imprint | Vienna., Printed by Strauss’s Widow., 1838 |
| Pages | p. 88 |
| Scan | leaf 102 of the Internet Archive copy |
| Rights | Public domain in the United States. |
- Prayers for
- penance and mortification, faith
The Bedford Master, Pentecost, book of hours, about 1420. Cleveland Museum of Art.
A feast in commemoration of the infants barbarously slaughtered by Herod, when he sought to take away the life of our blessed Saviour. It is also called Childer-Mass-Day, from the particular commemoration of those martyred children in the Mass of that day.
Prayer. O God, whose praise the Holy Martyrs, the Innocents, did this day publish not by speaking, but by dying: mortify in us all our vicious inclinations, that we may shew forth, in our actions, the faith which we profess with our lips. Thro’.