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                    [Title] => 'Holy Innocents Day different from Feast of Sto. Niño'
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Novaliches Emeritus Bishop Teodoro Bacani has asked the public not to confuse the Feast of the Holy Innocents today with the Feast of Sto. Niño on Jan. 15.

[DatePublished] => 2011-12-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096905 [AuthorName] => Evelyn Macairan [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 535598 [Title] => Premature Holy Innocents Day political pranks [Summary] =>

In the Philippine practice of Roman Catholicism, the December 28 feast day for the Holy Innocents — the babies King Herod ordered slaughtered in Bethlehem — is commemorated by playing pranks on other people.

[DatePublished] => 2009-12-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133540 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1790869 [AuthorName] => William M. Esposo [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 314118 [Title] => The Feast of the Holy Innocents [Summary] => Yesterday was Holy Innocents Day, the feast of the children. When Herod learned about the birth of Christ, he ordered all children less than 2 years of age killed to make sure that Jesus did not survive. The Holy Innocents were the very first saints and they died not only for Christ, but in place of Christ. We have consistently been turned off by the way the Feast of the Holy Innocents is celebrated, and to us the important thing about any feast is that it be properly commemorated.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 313862 [Title] => Second day of Christmas [Summary] => The worst after Christmas days were in 1941. Suffice it to say that on its second day, General Douglas McArthur declared Manila an open city and that the Japanese occupation ended with Manila as the second most destroyed city in the world.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 148730 [Title] => Nick Joaquin’s Tadtarin [Summary] => Nick Joaquin’s short story, Summer Solstice, immortalized Paco’s Tadtarin. The feast of the Tadtarin actually starts on Holy Innocents Day and the old folks maintain that Tadtarin means "to chop into small pieces." And that it referred to the infant martyrs whose heads were decapitated by Herod on that feastday. [DatePublished] => 2002-01-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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Novaliches Emeritus Bishop Teodoro Bacani has asked the public not to confuse the Feast of the Holy Innocents today with the Feast of Sto. Niño on Jan. 15.

[DatePublished] => 2011-12-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096905 [AuthorName] => Evelyn Macairan [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 535598 [Title] => Premature Holy Innocents Day political pranks [Summary] =>

In the Philippine practice of Roman Catholicism, the December 28 feast day for the Holy Innocents — the babies King Herod ordered slaughtered in Bethlehem — is commemorated by playing pranks on other people.

[DatePublished] => 2009-12-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133540 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1790869 [AuthorName] => William M. Esposo [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 314118 [Title] => The Feast of the Holy Innocents [Summary] => Yesterday was Holy Innocents Day, the feast of the children. When Herod learned about the birth of Christ, he ordered all children less than 2 years of age killed to make sure that Jesus did not survive. The Holy Innocents were the very first saints and they died not only for Christ, but in place of Christ. We have consistently been turned off by the way the Feast of the Holy Innocents is celebrated, and to us the important thing about any feast is that it be properly commemorated.
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[DatePublished] => 2005-12-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 148730 [Title] => Nick Joaquin’s Tadtarin [Summary] => Nick Joaquin’s short story, Summer Solstice, immortalized Paco’s Tadtarin. The feast of the Tadtarin actually starts on Holy Innocents Day and the old folks maintain that Tadtarin means "to chop into small pieces." And that it referred to the infant martyrs whose heads were decapitated by Herod on that feastday. [DatePublished] => 2002-01-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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