Thank you , Father , for the safe journey home from Liverpool .
Thank you for the few days I spent in Liverpool .
I saw much beauy there , especially in the Walker Art Gallery .
I was delighted to see one of my favourite artist’s work there , Holman Hunt’s The Triumph of the Innocents .
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Hunt began painting this subject while on a visit to the Holy Land in the 1870s. It shows Mary, Joseph and infant Jesus escaping to Egypt as King Herod kills all the first-born males or ‘innocents’ in Bethlehem, described in The Gospel of Matthew, 2: 16-18. Hunt originally intended to show just the Holy Family, but he later decided to add the martyred innocents. The Holy Family are surrounded by the souls of the children slain by Herod.