Labels:text | screenshot | graphics | graphic design | pixel OCR: Today is ... Holy Innocents Day (Childermas ) December 28 is a commemoration of the massacre of children in Bethlehem, ordered by King Herod with a view of destroying, among them, the infant Savior. Early and medieval accounts have claim of 144,000 dead. Recent writers noting that Bethlehem was very small, revised their estimates to between 6 and 20 children dead .