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Black Fast, The
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02590c.htmThis form of fasting, the most rigorous in the history of church legislation, was marked by austerity regarding the quantity and quality of food permitted on fasting days as well as the time wherein such food might be legitimately taken.
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