School: Ballynarry
- Location:
- Ballynarry, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0989, Page 025
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- (continued from previous page)and, entering the house they offered Him gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Herod failed to lay hands on Our Lord. The three men, having been told in a dream not to return to him, took another way hom.
Then an angel appeared to St. Joseph in his sleep and said "Arise and take the Child and his mother and fly into Egypt, for it will come to pass that Herod will seek the Child to destroy Him. St. Joseph arose at once and took the Child and His mother into Egypt where he remained until Herod's death.
When Herod found out that the kings were gone he became furious and ordered all the male children of two years and under two, to be put to death and this was carried out by his soldiers. Each year th 28th Dec is kept a holiday by the Church.
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- Collector
- Anna May Gaffney
- Gender
- Female
