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Innocents' Day   /ˈɪnəsənts deɪ/   Listen
Innocents' Day

noun
1.
December 28, commemorating Herod's slaughter of the children of Bethlehem.  Synonym: Holy Innocents' Day.





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... here from the Confessor's church, when it was pulled down by Henry III. Both were called by the old English name of Editha. The elder is connected with the first historic foundation of the Abbey, for she, the Confessor's wife, was present at the consecration (Innocents' Day, 1066) of the choir and transepts, when her husband lay helpless on his deathbed. Her niece changed the Saxon name of Editha for the Norman Matilda or Maud when, by her marriage with Henry I., the two ...
— Westminster Abbey • Mrs. A. Murray Smith
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