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Station Days were days of fasting in the Early-Christian Church. The practice of keeping Stations died out during the Avignon papacy, but it has been revived in the 20th-Century by Popes Leo XIII and John XXIII.
Pope Gregory the Great designated certain Churches in Rome as stationes and recommended that, on the more solemn festivals, they should be made Stations (stationes fieri) until the Hour of Sext, and, at these same Churches on the appointed days (statis dicbus), the faithful should assist at the Daily Office.
Today, they are Days associated with processions to particular Churches in which the faithful may gain certain indulgences.
Station Days were days of fasting in the Early-Christian Church. The practice of keeping Stations died out during the Avignon papacy, but it has been revived in the 20th-Century by Popes Leo XIII and John XXIII.
Pope Gregory the Great designated certain Churches in Rome as stationes and recommended that, on the more solemn festivals, they should be made Stations (stationes fieri) until the Hour of Sext, and, at these same Churches on the appointed days (statis dicbus), the faithful should assist at the Daily Office.
Today, they are Days associated with processions to particular Churches in which the faithful may gain certain indulgences.
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