This icon recalls the 14,000 infant souls slaughtered by order of the tetrarch Herod.
The murdered children of Bethlehem are venerated as the first martyrs for Christ.
Today this icon is prayed before by parents who, following the example of Herod, have dealt with their own children by destroying them in the womb
At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the
Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least
