 The Catholic Church says that the children murdered in Jesus's stead as the first Christian martyrs, and their feastHoly Innocents Day (or the Feast of the Holy Innocents) is celebrated on 28 December.Matthew's story is found in no other gospel, and the Jewish historian Josephus does not mention it in his "Antiquities of the Jews" (), which records many of Herod's misdeeds including the murder of three of his own sons.Most modern biographers of Herod dismiss the story as an invention.