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ASS, FEAST OF THE

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 770 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ARN-AUD
ASS, FEAST OF THE , formerly a festival in northern France, primarily in commemoration of the biblical flight into
Egypt
 , and usually held on the 14th of January. A girl with a baby at her breast and seated on an ass splendidly caparisoned was led through the town to the
church
 , and there placed at the gospel side of the altar while
mass
  was said. The ceremony degenerated into a
burlesque
  in which the ass of the flight became confused with Balaam's ass. So scandalous became the popular
revels
  associated with it, that the celebration was prohibited by the
church
  in the 15th
century
 . (See
FooLs
 , FEAST OF.)


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