Holy Innocents





Vespers hymn from the 1962 Roman Missal:



Flowers of Martyrdom, all hail!

Smitten by the tyrant foe

On life's threshold, as the gale

Strews the roses ere they blow.



First to bleed for Christ, sweet Lambs!

What a simple death ye died!

Sporting with your wreaths and palms,

At the very altar side.



Honor, glory, virtue, merit

Be to Thee, O Virgin's Son!

With the Father and the Spirit

While eternal ages run. Amen



V. Under the throne of God, all the Saints cry:

R. Avenge our blood, O our God.

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