 | |  Medjugorje & RomeFor general information about Medjugorje, please visit our page on Our Lady of Medjugorje. Tour Features- Round trip airfare from New York
- Accommodations in Medjugorje: Private Home or Pensione, twin-bedded rooms with private facilities
- Accommodations in Rome: Superior Tourist or First Class Hotel, twin-bedded rooms with private facilities
- Breakfast and dinner daily
- Transfers between airport and lodgings by Private Motorcoach
- Multi-lingual Tour Escorts
- Sightseeing in Rome as indicated in itinerary
- Papal Audience (if the Pope is in residence)*
- Welcome Packet / Document Portfolio
- Daily Mass and all spiritual activities coordinated
Proposed ItineraryDay 1 - USA - Rome - Depart from New Orleans on your overnight flight to Rome. Dinner and breakfast are served on board.Day 2 – Rome - Upon arrival we will be met by our Tour Escort and private Motorcoach. Celebrate Mass before transferring to your hotel. Dinner and overnight in Rome.Day 3 - Rome (Papal Audience and Vatican Museum Tour)
Wake up in Eternal City, one of the greatest centers of Western Civilization and the first truly cosmopolitan city on earth! It is also spiritual capital for all the Catholics around the world. Today is truly a day we will have in our minds for many years to come. This morning we go to Vatican City to attend the weekly Papal Audience or Blessing given by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI (pending papal schedule). Following the audience visit of the Vatican Museums, a group of most impressive edifices with hundreds of galleries filled with art treasures. See awe-inspiring relics and works of art donated throughout centuries as tributes of faith. We'll cover The Tapestry Gallery, The Raphael Rooms and the most overwhelming Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo's Masterpiece, restored mural of the Last Judgment. Later, enter the largest church in Christendom St Peter's Basilica, built on the site where St Peter was martyred. Unsurpassed in beauty, a monument to the long history of the Catholic Church, to which pilgrims come from around the world, St Peter's is the grandest of the world's churches. Marvel Pieta and Bernini's amazing bronze canopy. Before dinner, we'll have some time at leisure, to explore your own paths, to shop, or just to sit in one of the outside cafes and watch the world go by. Day 4 - Rome This morning we depart for a sightseeing tour with focus on "Christian Rome" .Touring we will see many important cultural and monumental sights around Rome. Stop for a visit at three major Basilicas: St Mary Major, one of the oldest shrines dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, a shrine that contains a relic from the manger of the infant Jesus. The Basilica of the St John in Lateran, is the former residence of the popes prior to their return to Rome in 1377. St Paul Outside the Walls, which houses the remains of St Paul under its main altar. We will also see the ancient Baths of Caracalla, Arch of Drusus, Chapel "O'Domine Quo Vadis?" the remains of imperial tombs, Tomb of Celilia Metella, and the catacombs of St Callixtus where the early Christians hid themselves to escape persecution. Dinner and overnight for your last evening in Rome. Day 5 - Arrive Medjugorje
Afternoon departure for Medjugorje. Upon arrival, you'll meet your fellow pilgrims and your spiritual leader. You'll also be greeted by a tour guide and driver who will then take you on the 2 1/2 hour drive by private motor coach to the village of Medjugorje. This guide will be with your throughout your stay in Medjugorje. Once there, you will be introduced to your host family in whose modern and comfortable house you will be staying for the next seven nights.
Days 6 to 11- Medjugorje
Experience the beauty and peace of this simple village. During your stay in Medjugorje you will have the opportunity to share faith with thousands of pilgrims from all over the world. Our local guide will accompany us throughout the week. Here are some of the activities we'll be sharing with our fellow pilgrims: Each morning at 10am we assemble at St James Church for the English-language Mass (Feast days and Sundays English Mass is at Noon). Follow the same path up Apparition Hill where the young visionaries first encountered Our Lady. Touch and pray before the cross that commemorates the spot where Mary first appeared to the visionaries.
Each evening at 5pm or 6pm daylight savings time, we will join the villagers and pilgrims to pray the rosary. The apparition takes place at 5:40pm or 6:40 daylight savings time, and then stay on for Croatian Mass. Don't miss on Tuesdays and Saturdays Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and on Fridays Veneration of the Cross in the Church. Each evening during Croatian Mass, there is the Blessing of the Sick and blessing of the items you have with you.
Our guide will arrange meetings with the visionaries at their own homes. We will have the opportunity to climb Krizevac Mountain, where in 1933 the villagers built a 30' high cross on the anniversary of Jesus' crucifixion. Visit and pray at "Blue Cross", which is a place of great healings and graces- a very special place at the base of Apparition Hill.
Day 12 - Medjugorje - USA
After an early breakfast and heartfelt farewells, we leave by motor coach for Dubrovnik Airport (Spilt or Sarajevo) for return flights home. Tours Currently Scheduled| Pilgrimage # | 2010 Dates | Price |
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| MR10 0906 | September 06-17, 2010 | $2,999.00 | | MR10 0920 | September 20-October 01, 2010 | $2,999.00 | | MR10 1004 | October 04-15, 2010 | $2,999.00 | | MR10 1021-CM | October 21-29, 2010 a 9 Day Journey to Medjugorje & Rome with Group Leader Carol Marquardt | $3,150.00 from Tampa $3,629.00 from Jackson Hole | | MR10 1108 | November 08-19, 2010 | $2,649.00 | Airport Taxes: *$350 subject to change
Single Supplement: $649.00
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| Pilgrimage # | 2011 Dates | Price |
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| MR11 0124 | January 24 - February 04, 2011 | $2,649.00 | | MR11 0221 | February 21 - March 04, 2011 | $2,649.00 | | MR11 0304 | March 04 - 20, 2011 | $2,649.00 | | MR11 0307 | March 07 - 18, 2011 | $2,649.00 | | MR11 0321 | March 21 - April 01, 2011 | $2,649.00 | | MR11 0404 | April 04 - 15, 2011 | $2,999.00 | | MR11 0418 | April 18 - 29, 2011 | $2,999.00 | | MR11 0502 | May 02 - 13, 2011 | $2,999.00 | | MR11 0516 | May 16 - 27, 2011 | $3,599.00 | | MR11 0530 | May 30 - June 10, 2011 | $3,599.00 | | MR11 0613 | June 13 - 24, 2011 | $3,599.00 | | MR11 0627 | June 27 - July 08, 2011 | $3,599.00 | | MR11 0711 | July 11 - 22, 2011 | $3,349.00 | | MR11 0725 | July 25 - August 05, 2011 | $3,349.00 | | MR11 0808 | August 08 - 19, 2011 | $3,349.00 | | MR11 0822 | August 22 - September 2, 2011 | $3,349.00 | | MR11 0905 | September 05 - 16, 2011 | $2,999.00 | | MR11 0919 | September 19 - 30, 2011 | $2,999.00 | | MR11 1003 | October 03 - 14, 2011 | $2,999.00 | | MR11 1017 | October 17 - 28, 2011 | $2,999.00 | | MR11 1031 | October 31 - November 11, 2011 | $2,649.00 | | MR11 1114 | November 14 - 25, 2011 | $2,649.00 | | MR11 1128 | November 28 - December 09, 2011 | $2,649.00 |
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