January 14th is the FEAST OF THE ASS

In medieval Christianity, 14 January was the medieval Feast of the Ass.
It celebrated all the donkeys in the Bible and their contributions to Christianity. pic.twitter.com/i6MbpIDGRF

— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) January 6, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_Ass

January has the best holidays

*marks calendar*

That magical day of the year when the ass finally returns the favor.

Then follows the scene in which the ass meets the angered angel and protests at length against the cruelty of the rider.

it's the most nick cave-y of all the feasts

Orientis partibus
Adventavit Asinus
Pulcher et fortissimus
Sarcinis aptissimus.
Hez, Sire Asnes, car chantez,
Belle bouche rechignez,
Vous aurez du foin assez
Et de l'avoine a plantez.

(From the Eastern lands the Ass is come, beautiful and very brave, well fitted to bear burdens. Up! Sir Ass, and sing. Open your pretty mouth. Hay will be yours in plenty, and oats in abundance.)

up-sir-ass corner

The Rouen rubrics direct that two messengers be sent by King Balaak to bring forth the prophet. Balaam advances riding on a gorgeously caparisoned ass (a wooden, or hobby, ass, for the rubric immediately bids somebody to hide beneath the trappings, not an enviable position when the further direction to the rider was carried out, "and let him goad the ass with his spurs").[4]

I love me a gorgeously caparisoned ass

(At the end of Mass, the priest, having turned to the people, in lieu of saying the 'Ite missa est', will bray thrice; the people instead of replying 'Deo Gratias' say, 'Hinham, hinham, hinham.')

i was deeply moved by this recreation of the feast of the ass i found on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNUHbCCiAg4