Medieval stained glass in Beauvais Cathedral depicting scenes from the life of Jesus.
This panel, from the bottom up, shows the Annunciation to the Shepherds, the Epiphany, the Massacre of the Innocents, and the flight into Egypt.
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The infants that the bible says Herod had killed in and around Bethlehem as he feared that a newborn King would deprive him of his throne.
The Massacre of the Innocents from the Abbey Church of St Ouen in Rouen is a powerful surviving fragment of the great Infancy of Christ cycle created during the abbacy of Jean Roussel, between about 1325 and 1339, when St Ouen was one of the most ambitious Gothic building projects in northern France.
