The feast of the Holy Innocents commemorates the massacre of the male children, two years old and under, in Bethlehem, by King Herod who obtained information from the wise men who searched for the Christ Child. (Matthew 2:16-18) This massacre fulfills the prophecy by Jeremiah, that a voice in Rama was heard, of lamentation and great mourning, Rachel bewailed her children and would not be comforted, because they are not. They are considered the first Christian martyrs.
