## [14,000 Infants (the Holy Innocents) slain by Herod at Bethlehem - 29 December](https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2025/12/29/103682-14000-infants-the-holy-innocents-slain-by-herod-at-bethlehem)
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🎶troparion🎶
As acceptable victims and freshly plucked flowers,
as divine first-fruits and newborn lambs,
you were offered to Christ who was born as a child, holy innocents.
You mocked Herod’s wickedness;
now we beseech you:
“Unceasingly pray for our souls.”
🎶kontakion🎶
When the King was born in Bethlehem, the Magi came from the east.
Having been guided by the star on high, they brought Him gifts.
But in his exceeding wrath, Herod mowed down the infants as wheat;
lamenting that the rule of his kingdom had come to an end.
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