C, Jan. 15; Paulinus, B. C, June 22; Peter's Chains, Aug. 1 ; Peter's Chair at Antioch, Feb. 22 ; Peter's Chair at Rome, Jan. 18 ; Peter, Mart}'r, April 29 ; Pe- ter of Alcantara, C, Oct. 19; Peter Celestinus, P. C, May 19 ; Peter Chrysologus, B. C. D., Dec. 4 ; Peter Damian, B. C. D., Feb. 23 ; Peter Nolasco, C, Jan. 31 ; Peter and Paul, Apostles, June 29 ; Peter and Paul, Octave of, July 6 ; Peter and Paul, Dedication of the Church of, Nov. 18 ; Philip Beniti,C., Aug. 23; Philip Neri, C, May 26 ; Philip and James, Apostles, May 1 ; Pius V, Pope, C, May 5; Pius, Pope, M., July 11; Placidus, etc. MM., Oct. 5 ; Polycarp, B. M., Jan. 26 ; Praxedes,V., July 21; Primus and Felicianus, MM., June 9 ; Raphael, Arch., Oct. 24 ; Raymund of Penna- fort, Jan. 29 ; Raymund of Nonnatus, C, Aug. 31 ; Re- migius, B. C, Oct. 1; Romuald, Ab., Feb. 7 ; Rose of Lima, V., Aug. 30; Sabbas, Ab., Dec. 5; Saviour's Church,Dedicationof the, Nov. 9; Scholastica,V.,Feb. 10; Seven Brothers, MM., July 10; Silvester, Pope, C, Dec. 21 ; Silverius, Pope, M., June 20 ; Simeon, B. M., Feb. 18 ; Simon and Jude, Apostles, Oct. 28 ; Soter and Caius, PP. MM., April 22 ; Stanislaus Kostka, C, Nov. 14; Stanislaus, B. M., May 7; Stephen, Proto- Martyr, Dec. 26 ; Stephen, Octave of, Jan. 2 ; Stephen, Finding of Relics of, Aug. 3 ; Stephen, Pope, M., Aug. 2; Stephen, King, C, Sept. 2; Theresa, V., Oct. 15; Thomas, Ap., Dec. 21 ; Thomas of Aquin, C. D., Mar. 7 ; Thomas of Canterbury, B. M., Dec. 29 ; Thomas of Villanova, B. C, Sept. 22; Tiburtius, etc. MM., April 14; Timothy, B. ]\r., Jan. 24; Transfiguration of our Lord, Aug. 6 ; Uhaldus, B. C, May 16 ; Valentine, M., Feb. 14; Venantius, M., May 18 ; Vincent of Paul, C, Julv 19*, Vincent Ferrier, C., April 5; Vincent and Anastasius, M:M., Jan. 22; Vitalis, M., April 28; Vi- tus, Modestus, etc. MM., June 15 ; Wenceslaus, M.,
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Sept. 28; William, Ab. C, June 25; Zepli}Tinus,Pope, M., Aug.2G.
(3.) The Church of England retains the following; the history will be found under the particular name of each festival.
Movable Feasts and Holy Days. — Advent ; Septua- gesima ; Sexagesima ; Quinquagesima ; Ash Wednes- day ; Quadragesima, and the four following Sundays ; Palm Sunday ; Maundy Thursday ; Good Friday ; Eas- ter Eve (Sabbafum Magnum); Easter Day; Sundays after Easter : Ascension Day ; Whit Sunday ; Trinity Sunday.
Immovable Feasts and Holy Days. — Jan. 1, the Cir- cumcision of our Lord; Jan. 6, the Epiphanj'; Jan. 25, the Conversion of St. Paul; Feb. 2, the Presenta- tion of Christ in the Temple, or the Purification of the Virgin; Feb. 24, St. Matthias's Day; March 25, the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary ; April 25, St. Mark's Day; May 1, St. Philip and St. James's Day; June 11, St. Barnabas the Apostle ; June 24, St. John the Baptist's Day ; June 2'J, St. Peter and St. Paul's Day ; July 25, St. Jamas the Apostle ; Aug. 24, St. Bartholomew the Apostle ; Sept. 21, St. Matthew the Apostle ; Sept. 29, St. Michael and all Angels ; Oct. 18, St. Luke the Evangelist ; Oct. 28, St. Simon and St. Jude, Apostles ; Nov. 1, All Saints' Day ; Nov. 30, St. Andrew's Da}'; Dec. 21, St. Thomas the Apos- tle ; Dec. 25, Nativity of our Lord ; Dec. 26, St. Ste- phen's Day; Dec. 27, St. John the Evangelist; Dec. 28, the Innocents' Day.
See, besides the works already cited, Zyliegan, die alte und neue Festen alter Christl. Confessionen (Dantzic, 1825, 8vo); Augusti, Christl. Archceologie, i, 469 sq. ; Coleman, Ancient Christianity exemplified, ch. xxvi ; Bingham, Orig. Eccles. bk. xx, ch. iv ; Butler, Feasts and Fasts of the Catholic Church (N. Y. 1856, 12mo) ; Nelson, Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England ; Riddle, Christian Antiquities, bk. v, ch. i ; Barrow, Ser- mons (serm. 77) ; Bibliotheca Sacra, iv, 650 ; Neander, Planting and Training, i, 158 ; Lewis, Bible, Missal, and Breviary (Edinb. 1853), ch. i ; Schaff, Hist, of the Christian Church, i, 128, 372 ; Lamson, Church of the Jirst three Centuries, p. S21 sq. ; Siegel, Christl.-Kiichl. Alterthumei; ii, 81, and references there.
Feast of Asses, a ridiculous festival of the Roman Catholic Church, celebrated in Rouen and some other cities of France, to commemorate the flight into Egypt. It was not uniformly observed, but the following were genei'ally among the ceremonies, especially at Beau- vais. A young woman with a child in her arms was made to ride on an ass. Followed by the bishop and clergy, she was conducted to the church, and a sermon was preached, in which the high qualities of the ani- mal that enabled the Virgin and child to escape from Herod were lauded. During the ceremony, a ludicrous composition, half Latin, half French, was sung with great vociferation, in praise of the ass, of which the last stanza maj' serve as a specimen : " Amen dicas asine Jam satur de gramine Amen, amen itera Aspernare vetera. Ilezva! Hezva! Hezva! llez! I?ialx sire asnez, car allez. Belle bouche car chantez." In Rouen it was celebrated about Christmas ; in other places, as, for instance, at Beauvais, on the 14th of June. Several popes, papal legates, and bishops en- deavored to suppress it, but it maintained itself until the 15th century, when Nicholas de Clemangis, by his work De noris celebritafibus non instituendis, and espe- cially the Council of Basle by a decree, caused the suppression of this and a number of similar festivals. — Ducange, s. v. Festum Asinorum ; Moreri, s. v. Fete ; Schriickh, Kirchen-Geschirhte, vol. xxviii ; Wetzer u. Welte, Kirchm-Lrx. iv, 710. '