Encyclopædia Britannica, First Edition/Childermas-Day

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4101071Encyclopædia Britannica, First Edition, Volume II — Childermas-Day1771

CHILDERMAS-day or Innocent's-day, an aniversary held by the church, on the 28th of December, in commemoration of the children at Bethlehem, massacred by order of Herod.