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 1  4,3|      are accompanied by severe fast all through the year, with
 2  8,1|        Christians prepare by a fast of forty days, called the
 3  8,1|      days, called the Nativity Fast, which lasts from the 15th
 4  8,1|        known also as “Philip’s Fast” because it begins the day
 5  8,1|   observed by keeping a strict fast. The Church prescribes that
 6  8,1|  Christ. The vigil is a day of fast as strict as that of the
 7  8,1|   feature of this feast is the fast which precedes it, beginning
 8  8,1|       of St. Peter’s day. This fast the Church designates as “
 9  8,1|        call it simply “Peter’s Fast.” It is observed in memory
10  8,1|      Dormition we prepare by a fast beginning on the 1st of
11  8,1|     Church calls it “Dormition Fast,” but the people also give
12  8,1|    give it the name of “Lady’s Fast,” because it is observed
13  8,2|   Friday of the sixth, and the fast of the Holy Week. These
14  8,2| together are called “the Great Fast,” or “Lent.” Over and above
15  8,2|      of keeping the fasts, the fast of the Wednesday and Friday
16  8,2|       finish the course of the Fast; to preserve inviolate the
17  8,2|     are the preliminary to the fast of Holy Week. The Saturday
18 10,2|        the fortieth day of His fast may help the departed to