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Massacre of the Innocents
noun
- the slaughter of all the young male children of Bethlehem at Herod's command in an attempt to destroy Jesus (Matthew 2:16â18)
Example Sentences
In Germany, protesters have stuck themselves to works including Rubensâs âMassacre of the Innocents in Bethlehem,â which hangs in the Alte Pinakothek, in Munich.
It's said that the Holy Family sought refuge here during the Massacre of the Innocents by King Herod.
Henry theorizes that part of QAnonâs attraction, for Lisa, is the resemblance it bears to Christianity: notions of struggle between good and evil, a maligned messianic savior, a narrative that invokes the massacre of the innocents.
And when he depicts the figure of a child apparently sick and dying in his motherâs arms, he lifts the figure from a painting of âThe Massacre of the Innocentsâ by the European artist Francois Joseph Navez.
âMassacre of the Innocents,â originally depicting the slaughter of children, is thought of today by some critics as one of Bruegelâs most strident criticisms of the atrocities of the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands.
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