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FEAST OF THE ASS , 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
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A girl with a baby at her 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 gospel
See also: side of the altar while mass was said
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The ceremony degenerated into a burlesque in which the ass of the flight became confused with Balaam's ass
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So scandalous became the popular See also: revels associated with it, that the celebration was prohibited by the church in the 15th century
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