On January 14th, according to Medieval Tradition, was The Feast of the Ass or Festum Asinorum. The Feast commemorates The Flight to Egypt of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus. The idea comes from apparently some donkey and animal parables, but the concept is when Jesus was only a Baby, Herod The Great sough to kill him, “ Now when they had gone, behold, an angel of the Lord *appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up! Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you; for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him.” So Joseph got up and took the Child and His mother while it was still night, and left for Egypt. He stayed there until the death of Herod; this happened so that what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled: “Out of Egypt I called My Son. Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he became very enraged, and sent men and killed all the boys who were in Bethlehem a...