Feast of the Ass
Feast of the Ass is held on January 14. This event in the second decade of the month January is annual. Help us
The Feast of the Ass is a medieval, Christian feast observed on 14 January, celebrating the Flight into Egypt. It was originally celebrated primarily in France, as a by-product of the Feast of Fools celebrating the donkey-related stories in the Bible, in particular the donkey bearing the Holy Family into Egypt after Jesus's birth.
This feast may represent a Christian adaptation of the pagan feast, Cervulus, integrating it with the donkey in the nativity story. In connection with the biblical stories, the celebration was first observed in the 11th century, inspired by the pseudo-Augustinian Sermo contra Judaeos c. 6th century.
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Coming of Age Day or Seijin Shiki or 成人式 in Japan on January 13 (celebrated on the second Monday of January);
National Hypersensitivity Day in France on January 13 (Journée nationale de l'hypersensibilité);
Poetry At Work Day on January 14 (finding the beauty in your job and putting it into some form of artful prose);
Museum Selfie Day on January 15 (Held on the third Wednesday of January)