Massacre of the Innocents
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The Massacre of the Innocents is a story recounted in the Nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children who are two yea
The Virgin and Child Surrounded by the Holy Innocents by Peter Paul Rubens
Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Massacre of the Innocents
Rubens, Massacre of the Innocents, 1610–11, Toronto
Massacre of the Innocents, Matteo di Giovanni, c. 1500
Nativity of Jesus
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The Nativity or birth of Jesus is found in the biblical gospels of Matthew and Luke. The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, that his mother, Mary, was engaged to a man named
Massacre of the Innocents
…The Massacre (or Slaughter) of the Innocents is a story recounted in the Nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew (2:16–18) in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children who are two years old and under…
Adoration of the Shepherds by Dutch painter Matthias Stom, c. 1650
The Nativity, an early 18th-century Russian Orthodox icon featuring common Orthodox iconographic elements of the Nativity by an anonymous Russian iconographer
A page from the 11th-century Bamberg Apocalypse showing Matthew 1:21
Angel Gabriel's Annunciation to Mary, by Murillo, c. 1660