Today the Church commemorates the death of the Holy Innocents, the baby boys that were martyred by Herod in his efforts to kill the Christ Child. Once again, God takes the evil and regrettable actions of men and brings good things from them...

"Let us chant the hymn of the martyred Innocents, whom earth lost and wept, but Heaven gained and was glad....Around His throne now stand, glittering in their fair bright robes, these Innocents that washed their garments red in the Blood of the Lamb. They had sighed and wept for the kingdom of the everlasting world: now they stand joyfully before God, and bright in their robes of glory are ever singing His praise."

~ Venerable Bede, as quoted in The Liturgical Year

(A cranium believed to belong to one of the Holy Innocents, Church of St. Trophime, Arles, France)