FEAST OF THE See also:

• ASS (O.E. assa; Lat. asinus)
• FEAST OF THE ASS

ASS  , formerly a festival in See also:

• NORTHERN

northern See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, primarily in See also:

• COMMEMORATION

commemoration of the biblical See also:

• FLIGHT

flight into See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt, and usually held on the 14th of See also:

• JANUARY

January . A girl with a baby at her See also:

• BREAST (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. the Ger. Brust, possibly connected with an O. Sax. brustian, to bud)

breast and seated on an See also:

• ASS (O.E. assa; Lat. asinus)
• ASS, FEAST OF THE

ass splendidly caparisoned was led through the See also:

• TOWN

town to the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church, and there placed at the See also:

• GOSPEL (O. Eng. godspel, i.e. good news, a translation of Lat. bona annuntiatio, or evangelium, Gr. evayyeXwv; cf. Goth. iu spillon, " to announce good news," Ulfilas' translation of the Greek, from iu, that which is good, and spellon to announce)

gospel See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of the See also:

• ALTAR (Lat. altare, from alias, high; some ancient etymological guesses are recorded by St Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae xv. 4)

altar while See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass was said . The ceremony degenerated into a See also:

• BURLESQUE (Ital. burlesco, from burla, a joke, fun, playful trick)

burlesque in which the ass of the flight became confused with See also:

• BALAAM (eit Bil'am; BaAaau; Vg. Balaam; the etymology of the name is uncertain)

Balaam's ass . So scandalous became the popular See also:

• REVELS, MASTER OF THE

revels associated with it, that the celebration was prohibited by the church in the 15th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century .