December 28: saint of the day, name day


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The Saint of the day 28 December is the Holy Martyr Saints, which name day is celebrated and other saints who are celebrated on this date.


Innocent Saints

Herod, seeing that the Magi had made fun of him, went on a rampage and ordered that all male children under the age of two be killed in Bethlehem and its surroundings.

In this way, what had been announced by the prophet Jeremiah came true: “A voice is heard from Ramah, a cry and a great lament. Rachel mourns her children and does not want to be consoled, because they are no longer. "


The innocent who testify to Christ not with words but with blood testify that martyrdom is a gift from the Lord.

The victims immolated by the ferocity of Herod belong, together with Saint Stephen and the evangelist John, to the procession of the Messinian king and recall the eminent dignity of children in the Church.

The massacre of the innocents is an episode readable only in the Gospel of Matthew, a text that tells the way in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, ordered a massacre of children with the precise purpose of killing Jesus, whose birth in Bethlehem had been informed by the Magi, unaware of his true intentions, in fact he had made them believe that he too wanted to go, like them, to worship him.


Jesus survived the massacre thanks to an angel who warned Joseph in a dream, recommending him to run away to Egypt.

Once Herod died, Joseph was able to go back with his family, settling in Nazareth in Galilee.

Other saints and celebrations on December 28th

  • Saint Anthony of Lerins
  • Monk


  • Saint Catherine Volpicelli
  • San Gaspare Del Bufalo
  • Priest

  • Blessed Gregory of Chaors
  • Mercedario

    Recommended readings
    • December 9: saint of the day, name day
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    • December 22: saint of the day, name day
  • Blessed Hryhorij Khomysyn
  • Ukrainian bishop and martyr

    അനുദിന വിശുദ്ധർ (Saint of the Day) December 28th - Holy Innocents (March 2024)


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