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ASS, FEAST OF THE

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 770 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ASS, FEAST OF THE , formerly a festival in See also:northern See also:France, primarily in See also:commemoration of the biblical See also:flight into See also:Egypt, and usually held on the 14th of See also:January. A girl with a baby at her See also:breast and seated on an ass splendidly caparisoned was led through the See also:town to the See also:church, and there placed at the See also:gospel See also:side of the See also:altar while See also:mass was said. The ceremony degenerated into a See also:burlesque in which the ass of the flight became confused with See also:Balaam's ass. So scandalous became the popular See also:revels associated with it, that the celebration was prohibited by the church in the 15th See also:century.

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