Neville weeps before a childhood picture of the Slaughter of the Innocents

As a child his mother told him the story of Jesus, and a gruesome picture of "The Slaughter of the Innocents" hung on the living-room wall, before which he stood and cried many a day; he took the story, as his mother did, as secular history.
Date (happened)
between 1905 and 1921
unresolved
  1. between 1905 and 1921 stated · probable · preferred
    Source The Dweller on the Threshold ¶14"when I was a child", told in The Dweller on the Threshold (nid 1532)
Place
Persons
Told / reported
  1. 14 June 1971 stated
    Source The Dweller on the ThresholdThe Dweller on the Threshold (nid 1532), telling 1532-2, told 1971-06-14
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Source

  • The Dweller on the Threshold ¶14 (So Mother told me the story when I was a child, and told me of a Jesus – I can see a picture now on the wall of the living room. It was “The Slaughter of the Innocents.” How Mother got it, I do not know, but many a day I stood before that picture and cri…)