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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 21:42:26 EST
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- Subject: Re: Holy Innocents
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- On Dec 28, 1:24pm, "Scott D. Weberg" wrote:
- > Subject: Re: Holy Innocents
- > Fr. John Woolley,
- >
- > Thanks for sharing the sonnet. This "Holy Innocents" is a
- > Catholic thing, right? Obviously, I'm not a Catholic, so I
- > hadn't heard of this before, but I really appreciated your
- > sonnet. Thanks again!
- - End of excerpt from "Scott D. Weberg"
-
- I think most Christians know about the children of Bethlehem
- killed by order of King Herod. It is just that they may not
- recognize the term "the Holy Innocents" used to describe them.
- The story is in the Bible (Matthew 2); the term isn't.
-
- Yours,
- James Kiefer
-