Station days

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 twentieth century by popes Leo XIII and John XXIII.Station churches website
Today they are days associated with processions to particular churches in which the faithful may gain certain indulgences. 
==Station Churches==
The current station churches of Rome are:From the Vatican website
* Ash Wednesday: Santa Sabina
** Thursday: San Giorgio in Velabro 
** Friday: Santi Giovanni e Paolo
** Saturday: Sant' Agostino
* First Sunday of Lent: Lateran basilica
** Monday: San Pietro in Vincoli
** Tuesday: Santa Anastasia
** Wednesday: Liberian basilica
** Thursday: San Lorenzo in Panisperna
** Friday: Santi Apostoli
** Saturday: Vatican basilica
* Second Sunday of Lent: Santa Maria in Domnica
**Monday: San Clemente
**Tuesday: Santa Balbina
**Wednesday	: Santa Cecilia in Trastevere
**Thursday: Santa Maria in Trastevere
**Friday: San Vitale in Fovea
**Saturday: Santi Marcellino e Pietro al Laterano
* Third Sunday of Lent: San Lorenzo fuori le Mura
**Monday: 	San Marco al Campidoglio
**Tuesday:	Santa Pudenziana al Viminale
**Wednesday:	San Sisto (Santi Nereo e Achilleo)
**Thursday:	Santi Cosma e Damiano in Via Sacra (Fori Imperiali)
**Friday:	 San Lorenzo in Lucina
**Saturday:	Santa Susanna alle Terme di Diocleziano
* Fourth Sunday of Lent: Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
**Monday: 	Santi Quattro Coronati al Celio
**Tuesday:	San Lorenzo in Damaso
**Wednesday:	Ostian basilica
**Thursday:	Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti
**Friday:	Sant'Eusebio
**Saturday:	San Nicola in Carcere
* Fifth Sunday of Lent: Vatican basilica
**Monday: 	San Crisogono in Trastevere
**Tuesday:	San Ciriaco (S. Maria in via Lata al Corso)
**Wednesday:	San Marcello al Corso
**Thursday:	Sant'Apollinare in Campo Marzio
**Friday:	San Stefano al Celio
**Saturday:	San Giovanni a Porta Latina
* Palm Sunday: Lateran basilica
**Monday:	Santa Prassede
**Tuesday:	Santa Prisca
**Wednesday:	Liberian Basilica
**Thursday:	Lateran basilica
**Friday:	Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
**Saturday:	Lateran Basilica
* Easter Sunday: Liberian Basilica
**Monday:	Vatican basilica
**Tuesday:	Ostian basilica
**Wednesday:	San Lorenzo fuori le Mura
**Thursday:	Santi Apostoli
**Friday:	 S. Maria ad Martyres in Campo Marzio (Pantheon)
**Saturday:	Lateran Basilica
* Octave of Easter:	San Pancrazio
==References==
Category:Catholic liturgy