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15 DAY PILGRIMAGE TO Tour Chaplain: POLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC, AUSTRIA, HUNGARY, CROATIA, MEDJUGORJE AND SARAJEVO T uesday , September 10 – Tuesday, September 24, 2019 SAN FRANCISCO / SAN FRANCISCO - $3,999.00 (Airline taxes/fuel surcharges included) Insurance $202.00 (Optional) LAND ONLY $2,999.00 Optional Insurance $171.00 (For pre-existing medical conditions, insurance must be purchased with deposit) Fr. Francis Garbo Single room supplement $799.00 Mission Dolores Basilica Tuesday, September 10, 2019 Tuesday, September 17, 2019 Saturday, September 14, 2019 DEPART SAN FRANCISCO PRAGUE/ VIENNA AUSCHWITZ/WADOWICE/KALWARIA Our journey begins as we depart San Francisco I T I N E R A RY ZEBRZYDOWSKA/KRAKOW Depart to Austria. Arrive Vienna, the “City of to Frankfurt on flight LH455 at 2:55pm. Drive to Auschwitz to see the martyrdom place Waltz” and one of Europe’s loveliest cities. Monday, October 11, 1999 Friday, October 15, 199 Monday, October 18, 1999 of St. Maximilian Kolbe and later to Birkenau, Upon arrival, we begin our tour of the old Wednesday, DEPART September USA/MILAN 11, 2019 PISA/FLORENCE ASSISI/SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO martyrdom place of St. Edith Stein. On to town, walking through the university, the ARRIVE WARSAW Wadowice to visit the local Parish Church and Opera house, Hofburg Palace, Donner ArriveOur Frankfurt Spiritual at 10Journey:45am .begins Transfer as we to departflight Today, we will have Breakfast at our Hotel Holy Mass and Breakfast in Assisi. the USA on our transatlantic flight to theand birthplace then take ofour Pope motorcoach John Paul and II. drive Then to toMorning Fountain, Tour Spanishof the placesRiding associatedSchool and St. LH1348 to Warsaw at 12:20pm. Arrive Warsaw Milan, Italy. Dinner and Breakfast will be KalwariaPisa, the historicZebrzydowska, town situated called on thethe ArnoPolish with Stephen’sSt. Francis Cathedral. and Santa Clara, at 1:55pm where we will be greeted by our tour served in flight. Jerusalem.River. We Itvisit is the the oldest Piazza Calvary Dei Miracoli, in Poland including the Basilica of St. Francis, the guide and bus driver. We transfer to our hotel in andthe oneCathedral of the mostand impressiveBaptistery Passionwith its and Crypt andWednesday, spend time September shopping 18, for2019 Warsaw. Tuesday, October 12, 1999 Marianfamous sanctuaries Organ & inEcho, the country. and the world- religious items. In VIENNA/BUDAPESTthe afternoon, continue MILAN renewed Leaning Tower. After Holy Mass, to San Giovanni Rotondo. Arrival and This morning we drive to Budapest, the Thursday, September 12, 2019 we continue to Florence. Dinner and transfer to our Hotel for Dinner and Sunday, September 15, 2019 capital of Hungary. Our sightseeing tour UponWARSAW/NIEPOKALANOW/ arrival at Milan Airport, we will be Overnight at Our Hotel. Overnight. KRAKOW/HAVE NO FEAR/PRAGUE includes the older section: Buda, located on met CZESTOCby our LocalHOWA/KRAKOW Representative and then the right bank of the Danube River, where take a short orientation City Tour of Milan This morning, we start the day with a visit to Monday, October 19, 1999 After a panoramic tour of Warsaw, we depart to the Royal Castle, the Cathedral of St. including Milan Cathedral, Church of St. “Have NoSaturday, Fear Center” October dedicated 16, 1999 to St Pope S.G.ROTONDO/LANCIANO/ROME Niepokalanow, home of the Basilica of the Matthew and Fisherman’s Bastion can be Mary of Grace (Santa Maria delle Grazie), John Paul II visitingFLORENCE the chapel where in the VirginThe Mary, Duomo and and a theFranciscan Center of monasterythe Town. Departfound. Assisi Enjoy after viewsBreakfast of the to NeoSan-Gothic founded by St. Maximilian Kolbe. On to center of the shrine is a marble altar that Afternoon at leisure in Milan to rest after contains Morning a phial Breakfast with relic and of hisHoly blood. Mass, Drive Giovanni Parliament, where weHero’s first Squarevisit the andChurch the ofBasilica Czestochowaour long toflight. visit DinnerJasna Goraand Overnight Monastery at followed by a guided tour of Florence. We St. Mariaof St. DelleStephen. Grazie, then pay a visit to towards Prague, capital of the Czech and seeour Hotel.the Black Madonna at the Gothic visit the Academy Museum to see the the Tomb of the Capuchin monk blest with Republic. Time permitting, we stop in Chapel of Our Lady. original painting of David, onto the the StigmataThursday, for 50 Septemberyears. Continue 19, 2019 to Wednesday, October 13, 1999 OlomoucCathedral toS. Mariacelebrate Del Fiore,Mass theand Duomo, enjoy aLanciano, site of the 8th century ‘Miracle of panoramic tour passing by the Town Hall to BUDAPEST/MARIJA BISTRICA/ZAGREB MILAN/VERONA/PADUA the Baptistery with the Golden doors of the Eucharist’Depart Budapest displayed in inthe the morning Monstrance. and drive to seeGhiberti, the Holy Giotto’s Trinity Bell Column. Tower andArrive onto Prague the Continue to Rome. Arrival and transfer to Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. En route we After Breakfast at our Hotel, we depart latehistorical in the afternoon.center of the town Piazza Della our Hotel for Overnight. Milan on our way to Verona. Arrival at Signoria. Afternoon at leisure in Florence stop to visit Marija Bistrica and free time for Verona, and a short visit to the Center of for a Monday,time of Septembrelaxation.er 16, Dinner 2019 and prayersTuesday, and meditations.October 20, Marija1999 Bistrica has the Town. Later, we continue to Padua, Overnight at our Hotel.PRAGUE an old MarianROME shrine of the Black Madonna home of St. Anthony, Patron Saint of which is a place of pilgrimage and visited by Full day of sightseeing in Prague focusing on ‘Things Lost’. Holy Mass at the Basilica Afterhundreds breakfast, of wethousands begin our of daypilgrims with every Hradcany Castle, St. Vitus Cathedral, the built in his honor. Dinner and Overnight in Sunday, October 17, 1999 Massyear. at theCelebrate Vatican mass and atthen the Marijavisit the Bistrica. Royal Castle, St. George’s Basilica and the Padua. FLORENCE/SIENA/ASSISI VaticanArrive Museum, Zagreb for dinnerTapestries and overnight.Gallery, Church of Our Lady Victorious, where we see Friday, September 13, 2019 Sistine Chapel, the Vatican Library, and Thursday, October 14, 1999 the This Statue morning, of the after Infant Breakfast, Jesus weof Prague.drive later we visit Christian Rome. Overnight at KRAKOW/LAGIEWNIKI/WIELICZKA Friday, September 20, 2019 VENICE Celebratethrough the Mass wine inregion Church to theof Ourcity Ladyof our Hotel. Our morning tour will include visits to Wawel ZAGREB/SPLIT/MEDJUGORJE Victoria.Sienna, birthplaceLater, cross of St.Charles Catherine, Bridge Virgin visiting Hill, the Royal Chambers and Cathedral. Then Depart for Split. Enjoy a walking tour of Split Breakfast at our Hotel. Then we drive to theand old Doctor town, ofthe the Market Church. Square Our “Astronomicalshort visit walk along Kanonicza Street, where Pope John to explore Diocletian Palace – one of a kind Venice, one of the world’s unique cities. clock”will includeand Wenceslas the Cross Square. from which St. Paul WeII resided celebrate while Holy living Mass in Krakow, at St. thenMark’s to Catherine received the Stigmata. We stroll Imperial Palace that was enlisted in the MariackiCathedral, Church after whichand the we strollMarket through Square. the through the silent narrow streets from the UNESCO’s World Heritage since it’s one of We willSquare, spend visitingthe afternoon Doges at Palace the Lagiewniki and the central square of Piazza Del Campo, to the the most significant original structures of the “DivineBridge Mercy of Sights.Shrine” Afterto visit spending the Shrine’s time in Piazza Del Duomo, overshadowed by the late ancient architecture. Have some free groundsbeautiful and Basilica. Venice, we Continue return toto our Wieliczka, Hotel in tall marble Cathedral. Continue to Assisi. time to enjoy the Mediterranean atmosphere Padua for Dinner and Overnight. Dinner and Overnight at our Hotel. one of Europe’s oldest salt mines which has of the city. Continue to Medjugorje. You may been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage join the pilgrims for Mass at St. James Site. Church (public Mass). Saturday, September 21, 2019 What Your Tour Includes MEDJUGORJE Attend the morning Mass in English at St. James * Round trip air on the above flights San Francisco Tuesday, October 20, 1999 * Transfers and sightseeing in a private air-conditioned motor coach Church. After Mass ourROME local guide will get you * Assistance of a tour escort and local guides were needed acquainted with Medjugorje. Medjugorje is a unique * Accommodation in first class hotels place inAfter the modernbreakfast, world. we Itbegin is believed our day that with Our Lady * Daily breakfast and daily dinner appearedMass in atfront the ofVatican a group and o fthen children visit thein 1981. * Entrance fees and local taxes * Porterage service at the hotels InnumerableVatican witnesses Museum, say Tapestries that, in this Gallery, place, they * Booking of daily mass have foundSistine faith Chapel, and peace.the Vatican Follow Library, the path and up the NOT INCLUDED: Lunches, insurance, items of personal nature and gratuities Apparitionlater weHill visit where Christian the Rome. young Overnight visionaries encounteredat our Hotel.Our Lady. Terms & Conditions Wednesday, October 21, 1999 All prices quoted in this flyer are based on land rates and exchange rates in effect March 2019 ROME/PAPAL AUDIENCE and on group rates of 35-42 passengers or more. All prices are subject to change without notice prior to departure due to major currency fluctuations, fuel prices and/or unforeseen economic This morning, after breakfast, we will circumstances. (lh/42/fr francis) attend the weekly Wednesday Papal Please complete the booking form with full names as they appear on passports and mail it to us Audience and Blessing given by His with your deposit of $350 per person plus Insurance $202 (optional-for pre-existing, must be Holiness John Paul II (depending on his purchased with deposit-valid for USA residents only).