Marian Shrines Tour - To Virgin Mary in Medjugorje, Lourdes & Fatima - BHT0019
Medjugorje village in Bosnia and Herzegovina, for pilgrims from all over the world, has been a place of prayer, confession, and devotion to Our Lady Queen of Peace ever since 1981. Since then, over 30 million pilgrims have been praying in the Shrine of Our Lady Queen of Peace!
Our pilgrimage will start here, and then our journey will take us to two beautiful Marian Shrines in Western Europe, to Lourdes and Fatima!
On this tour, we will visit, travel through five countries, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Spain, and Portugal! From the gorgeous Adriatic coastline to the Pyrenees mountains to colorful Portugal!
A chance to celebrate Holy Mass, and to pray to Queen of Peace in Medjugorje, to Immaculate Conception in Lourdes, and Our Lady of Rosary in Fatima will spiritually recharge you for the rest of your life! Few dates are scheduled every year will for sure help you find the time that suits you the best.
A journey to three "wells of spiritual healing", is a journey to places where the Divine touched the Earth!
MEDJUGORJE - LOURDES - LOYOLA - AVILA - FATIMA - SANTAREM - LISBON
Our Lady Queen of Peace - Our Lady of Immaculate Conception Lourdes - St. Ignatius of Loyola - St. Teresa of Avila
St. John of the Cross - Our Lady of Fatima - Eucharistic Miracle - St. Anthony in Lisbon
Day 1 - DEPARTURE FOR MEDJUGORJE
Our journey starts with a flight to Croatia, the city of Split. Meals served onboard the plane.
Day 2 – ARRIVAL to MEDJUGORJE
Upon arrival in Split (alternatively Dubrovnik), you will meet with your guide & bus driver and head towards Medjugorje. Only a few minutes after crossing the border you will be in Medjugorje, Bosnia & Herzegovina!
Day 3, 4 – MEDJUGORJE PROGRAM
Our Medjugorje pilgrimage will be filled with the prayer, daily morning English speaking Holy Mass, and in the evening at the time of the apparition of Our Lady International Mass and prayer of the Rosary. This will be a real spiritual retreat, and your life for a few days will go to the triangle of Podbrdo (Apparition Hill), St. James church, and Krizevac (Cross Mountain).
With thousands of pilgrims from all over the world, you will celebrate daily mass at St. James church. Visiting Bijakovici village, all six visionaries come from it; you will go up the Apparition Hill, Podbrdo place where Our Lady first appeared. Holy Rosary is prayed during the evening program with Mass; Our Lady repeated many times how important it is to come to mass where “we meet Jesus alive.” Messages of Prayer of the Rosary, Holy Mass, and Confession are the center of the evening program at St. James church. According to the three visionaries, they still every day receive the apparition of Our Lady, pray with her, and are blessed by Gospa daily! The apparition takes place at 5:40 pm or 6:40 daylight savings time, and Vicka, Ivan, and Marija are the ones who experience this daily. Mirjana, Jakov, and Ivanka are the three visionaries who don’t have daily apparitions but once a year.
Among other activities, you will have a chance to climb the “Cross Mountain,” Krizevac, as Croats call it, visit the “Blue Cross,” another place of the apparition. Each pilgrim will have time for private devotions, shopping, or simply enjoying your “freedom of prayer” as Rosary in the hands of people you see on the streets or in the fields in Medjugorje aren't a strange thing!
Day 5 – MEDJUGORJE - LOURDES
Today group will leave Medjugorje – early departure for Toulouse International Airport for a flight to France! Upon arrival to Toulouse (alternatively, Pau) follows the transfer to Lourdes! Check into the hotel, dinner, and our first night in the Shrine of Immaculate Conception - Lourdes!
Day 6 – LOURDES SHRINE
Tour of the Shrine, visiting the Grotto of Massabielle, where the Blessed Virgin appeared 18 times to Bernadette Soubirous in 1858. Tour will also include The Baths, The Basilica of Immaculate Conception with Crypt, which is underneath and was the first chapel built here as a place of worship, also Rosary Basilica, Church of St. Bernadette. A visit will then continue with the town Lourdes, the visit to all of the places associated with St. Bernadette. The Bolly Mill on Rue Bernadette Soubirous, where the saint was born on January 7th, 1844, is the place where she spent the first years of her life. The group will also visit “Cachot” or jail, where Bernadette lived with her family in the most devastating poverty at the time of the apparitions. Return to the Sanctuary area for lunch on your own. Free afternoon until dinner and in the evening group can participate Candlelight Marian Procession starting each day at 9:00 pm. Dinner and overnight in Lourdes.
Day 7 – LOURDES SHRINE
Today we will have a chance to plan our private program for Lourdes. After breakfast and a private Holy Mass, we will have time for private devotions, confessions, Lourdes water Baths, shopping…
In the evening, we will again attend the candlelight procession to Our Lady of Lourdes!
Day 8 – LOURDES - LOYOLA - AVILA
After breakfast in Lourdes, we will depart for LOYOLA. Holy Mass and visit the Sanctuary of Loyola, the birthplace of the founder of the Jesuit order St. Ignatius of Loyola. After the visit and Holy Mass, we are on our way to Avila. In the evening after dinner, time permitting, we can take a walk along the streets of Old Avila! Today we are at our hotel for dinner.
Day 9 – AVILA - FATIMA
This morning we will spend in Avila, a guided tour of this gorgeous town surrounded by high walls! We will walk the narrow cobblestone streets of the city as we trace the life of St. Teresa of Avila. We will see the garden where she played as a child, and visit the museum dedicated to her life. The gallery also contains relics of St. Teresa and her spiritual advisor St. John of the Cross. We’ll also have the opportunity to visit the Convent of the Incarnation, where St. Teresa first took her orders and would remain based for more than thirty years! Museum has an impressive drawing of the crucifixion by St. John of the Cross and a reconstruction of the cell used by the saint when she was prioress there. After the morning visit, we will continue towards Fatima in Portugal! Dinner and overnight at our hotel in Fatima.
Day 10 – FATIMA - ALJUSTREL - VALINHOS
Today we are with thousands of pilgrims coming from all over the world together in prayer to Our Lady Of Fatima! A day filled with devotion to Our Lady of the Rosary, Holy Mass, candlelight procession, and so on. Free day in Fatima will also be an opportunity for shopping, additional visits to New and Old Basilica, or Museum. Dinner and last night in Fatima!
Day 11 – FATIMA - LISBON
We are leaving Our Lady of Fatima today, breakfast, load our luggage and go for Lisbon! On the way to Lisbon, a stop for a visit to Saint Nicholas church in Santarem hosting the Eucharistic Miracle Relic from the 13th century! In Lisbon, we will have a couple of hours' tour visiting the Church of St. Anthony and next door Cathedral! Story on St. Anthony will be the last one we will enjoy in Portugal before the farewell dinner!
Day 12 – LISBON - USA
Early morning breakfast and transfer to airport for flight back home – transfer with the guide as the assistant at the airport – wish you a safe and sound journey home.
TOUR INCLUDES:
- Round-trip flights from the US (for price from your airport - please contact us)
- Airport taxes - SUBJECT TO CHANGE BY AIRLINE UNTIL TICKETS ARE ISSUED
- 3 nights in Medjugorje, 4* first-class hotel
- 3 nights in Lourdes, 4* first-class hotel
- 1 night in Avila, 4* first-class hotel
- 2 nights in Fatima, 4* first-class hotel
- 1 night in Lisbon, 4* first-class hotel
- Breakfast and dinner daily, drink per person included
- High-class air-conditioned tourist coach
- Escort Fatima – Lourdes + Medjugorje
- Local English-speaking guides Fatima, Avila, Lourdes, Medjugorje, Lisbon,
- Entrance fees according to the itinerary, Avila Monastery, Loyola St. Ignatius Museum
- Daily Mass in Medjugorje, Lourdes, Fatima, Avila, Loyola, Lourdes
NOT INCLUDED:
- Lunches daily
- Tips for guides, escorts, and drivers
- Porterage of luggage, in & out of hotels
- Travel Insurance strongly recommended
- Personal items, visa costs
RATES & DATES - based on min 25 pilgrims in the group:
March 13 - 26, 2023
Land and air from New York JFK, Newark EWR......................US$ 3350.00
Land and air from Los Angeles / Houston................................US$ 3590.00
Single room supplement...........................................................US$ 440.00
April 24 - May 5, 2023
Land and air from New York JFK, Newark EWR......................US$ 3590.00
Land and air from Los Angeles / Houston................................US$ 3690.00
Single room supplement...........................................................US$ 440.00
Sept 12 - Sept 23, 2023
Land and air from New York JFK, Newark EWR......................US$ 3450.00
Land and air from Los Angeles / Houston................................US$ 3550.00
Single room supplement...........................................................US$ 460.00
April 15 - 26, 2024
Land and air from New York JFK, Newark EWR......................US$ 3590.00
Land and air from Los Angeles / Houston................................US$ 3750.00
Single room supplement...........................................................US$ 460.00
Prices are informative and will be confirmed only once the airline reservation was made in the client's name!
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