Quiz: Great Lent

The Old Testament describes two instances of people abstaining from food and drink for 40 days, these were the prophets Moses and Elijah.

And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. (Ex.34:28)

" And the angel of the LORD came back the second time, and touched him, and said, «Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.» (1Ki.19:7)So he arose, and ate and drank; and he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb, the mountain of God. (1Ki.19:8)