Sacred France: Paris, Lourdes & Mont Saint-Michel

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Amazing Experience

Overview

  • Begin your spiritual journey in Medjugorje, joining pilgrims for prayer, reflection, and visits to sacred sites.
  • Continue to Lourdes to explore the Shrine, Grotto, and Basilica where the Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette.
  • Travel through Spain, visiting the Sanctuary of Loyola and the walled city of Avila, home of St. Teresa.
  • Arrive in Fatima, one of the world’s most revered pilgrimage sites, dedicated to Our Lady’s apparitions.
  • Conclude in Lisbon with visits to Santarem’s Eucharistic Miracle and St. Anthony’s Church before your farewell.

 

Trip Includes

  • Meet & assist upon arrival & departure at Airports
  • Transportation in a private, air-conditioned coach with driver/guide
  • Sightseeing and admissions as per the itinerary
  • 10 nights hotel in first-class hotels
  • Meals as indicated on itinerary

 

Trip Excludes

  • All airfares, departure taxes & fuel surcharges, seat selection
  • Personal items
  • Hotel Porterage
  • Optional Tours
  • Meals unless listed in itinerary
  • Tips & Gratuities
  • Increase in local tax rates
  • Early check-in & late check out of rooms (standard check-in time is 2pm and check out 10am)
  • Travel Insurance
  • Visa/passport handling fees

 

Summary

Terms and Conditions

Prices are from per person based on twin/double share accommodation, subject to availability and current exchange rates, based on a minimum of 15 passengers, Seasonal surcharges and black-out dates may apply. Please enquire about airfare, single supplements, extensions/changes to itinerary or upgrades.

 

Upon arrival in Split (alternatively Dubrovnik), you will meet with your guide & head towards Medjugorje. Only a few minutes after crossing the border, you will be in Medjugorje, Bosnia & Herzegovina! Check in to your hotel and enjoy the remainder of the day at leisure.

 

Arrival to Croatia & Medjugorje

 

Your Accommodation

Hotel Quercus

Hotel Quercus is the right choice for everyone looking for classical elegance and modern comfort. Top quality hotel services in a pleasant decor awaits all of our guests. Hotel Quercus is located only 10 minutes by foot from st. James church in Medugorje. One of our main goals is to always be sure our guests feel welcome and comfortable. Knowing they can put their trust in us fills us with the sense of satisfaction. Hotel Quercus boasts the professional and helpfull members of the staff as well as good geographical position in Medugorje, making us very attractive destination to travel to.

Hotel Quercus

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 genuine 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 worldwide, 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 receive the apparition of Our Lady every day, 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, and 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 the Rosary in the hands of people you see on the streets or in the fields in Medjugorje isn't a strange thing!

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Breakfast, Dinner

A second full day enjoying your Medjugorje Pilgrimage

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Breakfast, Dinner

Medjugorje – early departure for the Split Airport (alternatively Dubrovnik) 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!

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Breakfast, Dinner

 

Medjugorje to Lourdes

 

Your Accommodation

Hotel Alba Lourdes

At the foot of the Pyrenees, the 4-star Hôtel Alba enjoys privileged access to the sanctuaries in Lourdes and seems to be the perfect starting point for many tourist trips, and many touring and mountain biking circuits our valleys offer. The establishment is by the edge of the Gave de Pau river, surrounded by lush green grounds and away from the commotion in Lourdes, promising you’ll enjoy an unique experience in a calm space getting away from it all. Apart from its exceptional situation, the place itself has been designed to make your stay unique: it has a cosy lounge, bar, outside terraces, a large private garden, but also a cycle space for those who love bike riding... In other words, a multitude of invitations to relax and take the time to reconnect with enjoying simple things. It’s a feeling of well-being our welcoming, qualified staff contribute to. They are available to help you at any time

Hotel Alba Lourdes

Tour of the Shrine, visiting the Grotto of Massabielle, where the Blessed Virgin appeared 18 times to Bernadette Soubirous in 1858. The tour will also include The Baths, The Basilica of Immaculate Conception with a 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 of Lourdes, the visit to all of the sites associated with St. Bernadette. The Bolly Mill on Rue Bernadette Soubirous, where the saint was born on January 7th, 1844, is 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 the evening group can participate in Candlelight Marian Procession starting each day at 9:00 pm. Dinner and overnight in Lourdes.

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Breakfast, Dinner

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 personal devotions, confessions, Lourdes water Baths, shopping… We will again attend the candlelight procession to Our Lady of Lourdes in the evening!

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Breakfast

After breakfast in Lourdes, we will depart for LOYOLA. Visit the Sanctuary of Loyola, St. Ignatius of Loyola. After the visit here, we are on our way to Avila. In the evening, after dinner in our hotel located within the city walls, we can take a walk along the streets of Old Avila! Today we are at our hotel for dinner.

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Breakfast, Dinner

 

Lourdes to Loyola and Avila

 

Your Accommodation

Sercotel Cuatro Postes

The Sercotel Cuatro Postes is a refuge in nature from which you’ll be able to embark on enjoying Ávila, but it’s also accommodation for anyone travelling on business. This is why we’ve created a Business Center where you’ll find the peace and quiet and privacy you need to get on with your work, answer your emails or put the finishing touches to your next meeting.

Sercotel Cuatro Postes

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 over 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 toward Fatima in Portugal! Dinner and overnight at our hotel in Fatima.

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Breakfast, Dinner

 

Avila to Fatima

 

Your Accommodation

Hotel Fatima

Situated near the Shrine esplanade, the Basilica of the Most Holy Trinity and the Chapel of Apparitions, Hotel Fatima benefits from an unparalleled location, as it is the closest hotel to the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima. Its proximity to tourist reference points and to the main city's road network makes it the ideal choice for those seeking spiritual refuge or simply a welcoming place to relax.

Hotel 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 over 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 toward Fatima in Portugal! Dinner and overnight at our hotel in Fatima.

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Breakfast, Dinner

We are leaving Our Lady of Fatima today, breakfast, load our luggage, and a short bus ride to Lisbon! On the way to Lisbon, a stop for a visit to Saint Stephen's 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 the next door Cathedral! Story on St. Anthony will be the last one we will enjoy in Portugal before the farewell dinner & a glass of Portuguese wine!

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Breakfast, Dinner

 

Fatima to Lisbon

 

Your Accommodation

Turim Av Liberdade Hotel

Close to the Marquês de Pombal, with its main entrance to one of the most famous avenues in Europe, Avenida da Liberdade, nr. 247, Turim Av Liberdade Hotel has 66 rooms with standard, superior and executive rooms. Inside the hotel, the Gin Twist Bar offering a menu with several signature Gin’s. You can also organize group lunches and dinners, since we have at your disposal several menus to complement the service of your wedding, baptism, anniversary or other meeting of a personal or professional nature. Invest in your business with our meeting rooms, which include a Multimedia Auditorium.

Turim Av Liberdade Hotel

Breakfast at the hotel. Check out of the hotel and then group will be picked up and transferred back to the airport for return flight home.

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Breakfast

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