The Orthodox Christians using the Julian Calendar start Thursday the fast of Holy Virgin Mary, lasting 14 days to 28 August when the Dormition of the Mother of God is celebrated. The Holy Mary's fast is held to honor the period Virgin Mary passed in incessant prayer and vigils before she was taken up to the heaven, Info-Prim Neo reports. The fast is held to honor Virgin Mary – the one from whom the Son of God and the World's Savior was born, the one that God Himself selected for her purity, calling her with the lips of Archangel Gabriel: „the one full of grace”. Her being taken to the heaven, near her Son, is a holy day when the Christians chant „You are honored more than the Cherubim, And you have more glory, when compared, to the Seraphim; You, without corruption, Did bear God, the Logos…” It's a two-week period, during which the Christians seek, more than in other days of the year, to get closer to the holy ones, to Church and to God. The fast is a period of spiritual and corporeal purification. During this period, the Christians do not eat meat, dairy and eggs, and even sunflower oil, except for Saturdays and Sundays. Only on August 19, on the day of the transfiguration of Our Lord, it is allowed to consume fish and wine.