It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. The devil showed God the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them, but God would not lower His testimony for material things. It has no place in the Church of God. It was near this time that the birth of Jesus was celebrated in the East also. The actual meaning of the word Lent, comes from the Latin lengten, lencten, meaning spring.
Some writers associate it to the middle ages.
Toward the end of this vain worship is a week known as Holy Week, which lasts from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. Palm Sunday is usually distinguished by the wearing of palm. They say this is derived from the time when Jesus entered into Jerusalem, the people spread their garments in the way and others cut down branches of the trees and strewed them in the way. Yet the people are so deceived as to commemorate something done by murderers of Christ by pinning on palms. One of the earliest references to Friday's being a holiday is found in the Mithraism cult, an off shoot of Zoroastrianism.