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Medjugorje & Rome
Proposed Itinerary
Day 1 - USA - Rome -
Depart from New Orleans for our overnight flights 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.
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
Pricing
| Pilgrimage # |
2010 Dates |
Price |
| MR10 0405 |
April 05-16, 2010 |
$3,299.00 |
| MR10 0419 |
April 19-30,
2010 |
$3,299.00 |
| MR10 0503 |
May 03-14, 2010 |
$3,299.00 |
| MR10 0517 |
May 17-28, 2010 |
$3,799.00 |
| MR10 0531 |
May 31-June 11,
2010 |
$3,799.00 |
| MR10 0603 |
June 03-14, 2010 |
$3,799.00 |
| MR10 0614 |
June 14-25, 2010 |
$3,799.00 |
| MR10 0628 |
June 28-July 09,
2010 |
$3,799.00 |
| MR10 0810 |
August
10-21, 2010 |
$3,799.00 |
| MR10 0823 |
August
23-Sep 03, 2010 |
$3,299.00 |
| MR10 0906 |
September 06-17,
2010 |
$3,299.00 |
| MR10 0920 |
September
20-October 01, 2010 |
$3,299.00 |
| MR10 1004 |
October 04-15,
2010 |
$3,299.00 |
| MR10 1018 |
October 18-29,
2010 |
$3,299.00 |
| MR10 1108 |
November 08-19,
2010 |
$2,999.00 |
Airport Taxes:
*$350
subject to change
Single Supplement: $599.00
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*Papal Audiences are scheduled only on Wednesdays and
Sundays, and are subject to the Pope's health and schedule.
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