The flight into Egypt is a story recounted in the Gospel of Matthew and in New Testament apocrypha. Soon after the visit by the Magi, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream telling him to flee to Egyp
The Flight into Egypt by Giotto di Bondone (1304–1306, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua)
Fra Bartolomeo, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c. 1500 (Pienza)
Print of the flight into Egypt. Made by Johannes Wierix.
The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt by Jacob Jordaens (c. 1616)
The Ordo Rachelis, Interfectio Puerorum, or Ludus Innocentium is a medieval dramatic tradition consisting in four plays and based on the Massacre of the Innocents, an event recorded in the Gospel of M
Massacre of the Innocents from the late 10th-century Codex Egberti