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Monday, June 27 - Day 1 - DEPART – Today, we depart Dulles International Airport to connect with our overnight Sunday, July 3 - DAY 7 - LORETO/MONTESILVANO – flight to Europe. We enjoy in-flight movies, dinner and Today we drive east towards Ancona and visit and celebrate breakfast aloft. Mass at Loreto, the site of the Santa Casa or Holy House. Tuesday, June 28 - Day 2 – MEDJUGORJE – This Ancient tradition tells us angels carried the house of the Holy morning we arrive in Europe where we board our flight to Family from Nazareth to Loreto as it was about to be destroyed Split, Dubrovnik or . On arrival we will be met and by Holy Land invaders. After our visit, we continue southwards transfer to Medjugorje for dinner and overnight. via the coastal highway to the Montesilvano Pescara area for Wednesday, June 29 – and Thursday, June 30 - Day 3 & dinner and overnight at our hotel on the shores of the Adriatic 4 – MEDJUGORJE – Following breakfast today and Sea. tomorrow, we will visit the famous Church of St. James Monday, July 4 - Elizabeth of Portugal where will join with other English speaking pilgrims to Independence Day – USA - DAY 8 - LANCIANO/SAN celebrate Mass. Depending upon schedules and if possible, GIOVANNI ROTONDO - This morning we visit and pray at our full time local guide will introduce us to the Medjugorje Lanciano, the site of the oldest Eucharistic certified by Visionaries who will share a talk with us and often be open the Church. After almost eight centuries the Body and the Blood for a time of questions and answers. We will have the still maintain all the characteristics of fresh human material. We opportunity to climb Apparition Hill (Podbrdo) where Our continue south to San Giovanni Rotondo where we celebrate Blessed Mother first appeared to the children. We will pray Mass at the tomb of Saint Padre Pio and visit the sanctuary. We the as we make our way up the hill. Those who wish transfer to our hotel for dinner and overnight. can make the more difficult climb up Cross Mountain Tuesday, July 5 - DAY 9 - SAN GIOVANNI/ROME – This (Krizevac.) In the evening we return to our guesthouse morning we visit Gargano and St. ’s caves, the to where our hosts will prepare a delightful dinner. Michael the Archangel where Padre Pio often went to pray and Friday, July 1 - Day 5 – MEDJUGORJE/SPLIT – hear confessions. We celebrate Mass here. Following lunch on Following our final Mass in Medjugorje, we depart over the our own, we continue to Rome for dinner and overnight at our mountains and again cross the border to . We will hotel. stop in Makarska, center of the vacation area on the Wednesday, July 6 - Wednesday Day 10 – ROME - This beautiful Croatian coast and have free time for lunch on the morning, we will make our way to St. Peter's for the Audience of promenade overlooking an idyllic bay. Continue along the if he is in residence. This afternoon we celebrate spectacular Magistrale coast road to Split where we will Mass at St. Paul Outside the Walls. Rome’s second in size only enjoy a short sightseeing tour including the 3rd century to St. Peters it is the first of our major Basilicas and the tomb of Diocletian Palace and Cathedral, formerly the Mausoleum the Apostle Paul. Finally, we make our way to St. Mary Major, of the Emperor Diocletian. We will have dinner near the our second patriarchal Basilica of Rome which we will visit this port before boarding our overnight ferry to Ancona in Italy. week. This is the first church dedicated to the Blessed Mother Saturday, July 2 - DAY 6 – ANCONA/ASSISI - This first built in the fifth century following the Council of Ephesus. morning, we arrive in Ancona where we will be met and Return to our hotel for dinner and overnight. drive west to Assisi. Our first stop is in the lower town for a Thursday, July 7 - Day 11 – VATICAN CITY/ROME – This visit to the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels, and the morning, we begin our day celebrating Mass at St. Peter’s. Portiuncula, Francis' Church of the Little Portion. We Afterwards, we will see the treasures of the Vatican Museum. celebrate Mass here. We then proceed to the hilltop village We will marvel at Michelangelo's recently restored frescoes in of Assisi where we begin with a short walk to the Basilica the Sistine Chapel and the wonders of St. Peter’s. This will be of St. Francesco. After our visit of the Basilica and the tomb our third of the four major Basilicas of Rome This afternoon we of St. Francis, we begin our walking tour of the village with will tour the sites, including the Church of St. Peter in Chains to a visit to the Church of St. Clare “the little plant of Blessed view Michelangelo's possibly most celebrated sculpture, the Francis” as she loved to call herself, where we view the San "Moses." Next we will visit the Church of the Holy Stairs and Damiano crucifix that spoke to St. Francis. Kneeling the last of our four major Basilicas as we enter the Basilica of St. before it, Francis composed the following prayer, which is John Lateran, the Cathedral of Rome. First built in the fourth considered to be among the oldest of his writings: “All century. The Basilica was the site of five ecumenical councils Highest, Glorious God, cast your light into the darkness of between the 12th and 16th centuries. The Popes resided in the my heart. Give me right faith, firm hope, perfect charity, Palace from the time of Constantine until 1304 when they and profound humility, with wisdom and perception, O moved to Avignon. We will enjoy a tour of her treasures. We Lord, so that I may do what is truly your most holy will. will return to our hotel for dinner and overnight. Amen.” We continue to our hotel for dinner and overnight. Friday, July 8 - Day 12 - RETURN TO USA – We transfer to the airport for our return flight to the U.S and our home cities with unforgettable memories to cherish always.

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