Event Factoid: Thomas and Maria and their sons committed themselves to a diet of
only fruit and some grain, tasting bread and wine only when absolutely
necessary.
Sources:
E. W Brooks, trans.,Lives of the Eastern Saints I,Patrologia Orientalis 17.1 (1923), https://archive.org/stream/patrologiaorient17pariuoft#page/n7/mode/2up, p: 297.