A Jubilee Year Pilgrimage to – Exploring of Holiness and Healing For anyone involved in or interested in the work of healing and/or the lives of Saints with healing graces.

Led by Fr Jim Blount, SOLT, a priest with a healing ministry and Rose and Frank Averill, MD, founders of St Francis Medical Institute, a medical practice that strives to combine healing of mind, body and soul in the Catholic tradition. October 29-November 10, 2016 $2,100 per person (Ground only) $1,100 (Estimated Airfare from Tampa) $3,200 (Estimated Total)

Included in Price:  2 nights in , 2 in San Giovanni Rotondo, 1 in Loreto, 3 in Assisi, 3 nights in Rome  Breakfast, plus dinner daily  Chartered motor coach (as per itinerary)  First Class Accommodations (2 pilgrims per room)  Daily  Guides with spiritual reflections and

NOT Included one meal per day, tips/gratuity or optional travel insurance.

Itinerary on next page www.stfrancispilgrimages.com

For more information, contact: Bret Thoman, OFS  St. Francis Pilgrimages  (404) 418-6683  [email protected] or: Rose Averill, CEO  St Francis Medical Institute  (727) 447-3000  [email protected] October 29-November 10, 2016 pilgrimage to this famed where countless graces and have taken place. Dinner and overnight in Loreto. Saturday, October 29: Flight USA - Rome Fiumicino airport Depart from Tampa or from your hometown on overnight flight to Friday, November 4: Loreto-Assisi Rome. Dinner and breakfast served on board. After breakfast, we will make our way through the Apennine Mountains to Assisi. Along the way, we will stop in a Poor Clare monastery of nuns in Sunday, October 30: Arrive Rome - Naples San Severino who will share with us the story of how St. Francis passed Upon arrival in Rome’s Fiumicino airport (FCO) (also called Leonardo through their city leaving a Little Lamb. After mid-day prayer and lunch da Vinci), we will be greeted by our tour escort who will accompany us with the nuns, we will continue to Camerino to meet another community for the duration of the pilgrimage. We will head south toward Naples of Poor Clare Sisters who will serve us lunch and talk to us about the life stopping at Mugano Del Cardinale where we will celebrate Mass at the of Blessed Camilla Battista, a 15th century Poor Clare nun, canonized in Shrine of , known as a worker. After Mass, we 2010 whose remains are conserved here. Check-in and dinner at the will visit her tomb which still contains the original tiles from the cata- hotel in Assisi. combs of St. Priscilla where St. Philomena was discovered in 1802. We will have time to pray before the altar which has been the site of many Saturday November 5: Assisi miracles and healings. Then we continue to Naples to our hotel for This morning we will have Mass and a guided visit of the world renowned check-in and dinner and overnight at the hotel in Naples. Sacro Convento Basilica, where St. Francis’s body is entombed. The church is adorned with beautiful frescoes painted by masters of the high Monday, October 31: Naples middle Ages like Giotto, Cimabue, Martini, and Lorenzetti. In the after- After breakfast, we will go to one of the most popular churches in Na- noon we will take a walking tour through the Franciscan sites in medieval ples -- the Jesuit church of Gesù Nuovo -- to visit the tomb and muse- Assisi including the birth place of Francis, the home of the first follower of um of Saint and Physician, Giuseppe Moscati. His life illustrates how Francis, the first of Assisi and the Basilica and tomb of St. Clare one’s catholic faith and practical charity can be united in a physician housing the from which Jesus spoke to St Francis, asking him to and layman. Then we will visit Naples’ cathedral housing the tomb and rebuild his church. Free time in Assisi before dinner and overnight at the catacombs of the city’s illustrious , San Gennaro (St. Ja- hotel in Assisi. narius) -- early martyr and bishop. We will also witness the vile of the saint’s blood which, every year on his Feast day, September 19, the Sunday, November 6: Assisi liquefaction takes place. After lunch on our own, we will explore Doctor This morning, we will visit St. Mary of the Angels to visit the Basilica con- Moscati’s professional life and visit the Hospital for the incurables taining the Portiuncula - one of the most important Franciscan sanctuar- (Ospedale degli Incurabili) where he worked and the First Polyclinic of ies in Assisi. Since the 13th century, the Portiuncula grants a plenary in- Naples (Primo Policlinico di Napoli). Time permitting, we also view Dr. dulgence to anyone who visits it. Afternoon will be free. Dinner and over- Giuseppe Moscati’s humble home in Naples (Via Cisterna dell Olio 100) night at hotel in Assisi. from 1902 to his death in 1927. Dinner at the Naples hotel. Monday, November 7: Assisi - Rome Tuesday, November 1: Naples-Pompeii-San Giovanni Rotondo After breakfast we will head south to the eternal city of Rome to begin After breakfast, we will leave Naples for Pompeii. About 15 miles south our celebration of the Jubilee year. After check-in and lunch on our own, of Naples, Pompeii is known throughout the world as a vast archaeo- we will visit the papal basilica of St. Peter’s where we will walk through logical site revealing a once thriving ancient Roman city dating from the Holy Door open only during Jubilee Years. We will then have a guided the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Pompeii is also the site of tour of the Basilica and St. Peter’s Square. Dinner and overnight in the the Shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Pompeii. Blessed , hotel in Rome. founder of the Shrine of Our Lady Queen of the Rosary, was born in 1841, the son of a doctor. Four healings, hundreds of miracles have Tuesday, November 8: Rome been officially recorded at the sanctuary in addition to countless grac- Wake up in the Eternal City and after breakfast, we will begin a walking es. Next, we will head east traversing the Italian peninsula to the town tour through the ancient part of Rome visiting the well-known monu- of San Giovanni Rotondo, our base for the following two nights. Dinner ments of Castel Sant’Angelo, Piazza Navona, and the Pantheon. We will and overnight in San Giovanni Rotondo. also visit the remains of Saint Camillus Lellis in the church of St. . Known as the patron of nurses and the sick, St. Camillus de Wednesday, November 2: San Giovanni Rotondo Lellis devoted himself to caring for the sick, and became director of St. Today we will get to know Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (1916-1968) who Giacomo Hospital in Rome after founding his own congregation, the Min- lived most of his life here in San Giovanni Rotondo. St. Pio was known isters of the Sick (the Camellians). Next, we will visit the mother-house for many supernatural experiences such as bi-location, reading souls, of the Jesuits -- the Gesù -- where the founder of the order, St. Ignatius and bearing the wounds of Christ (the stigmata). A guide will lead us of Loyola is buried, in addition to , Pedro Arrupe. Pedro on a tour which will include a museum, his friary, the old church, and Arrupe first began medical studies at the University of Madrid with plans the crucifix from which he received the stigmata in 1918, and the new to become a doctor. His plans were dramatically altered, however, after a church recently built in 2004 by world-renowned architect, Renzo Pi- visit to the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France. Witnessing the hun- ano. After lunch on our own, we will have a private tour of the House dreds of pilgrims seeking healing at the famed waters, Arrupe decided to for the relief of the suffering, the hospital that Padre Pio built in 1954 become a spiritual healer, instead, and he joined the Jesuits in 1927. As as what he considered the “Cathedral of Charity.” We spend the even- a missioner in Japan, Father Arrupe was the Director of Novices outside ing in San Giovanni for devotions, reflection, and a restful overnight. of Hiroshima when the atomic bombs fell. As a physician he led the first Dinner and overnight at the hotel in San Giovanni Rotondo. rescue party to enter ground zero and built a makeshift hospital to serve the wounded and dying. After a farewell lunch in the oldest operating Thurs, Nov 3: San Giovanni Rotondo - Lanciano - Manoppello - Loreto restaurant in the city, Ulpia, we will discover why Rome is called the eter- After breakfast, we will head north along the Adriatic coast to Lanciano nal city as we walk along the Roman Forum and Coliseum. There we will where we will visit one of the most well-known Eucharistic miracles. see the basilica of Saints Cosmos and Damian. The basilica is devoted to We will have the opportunity to view up close the twelve-century-old the two Greek brothers -- doctors, martyrs and saints -- Cosmas and Host and coagulated droplets of blood. Startling the skeptical priest Damian. Next, we will continue our pilgrimage with a guided visit to who was celebrating Mass, the bread was transformed into flesh and Rome’s Cathedral, the Basilica of St. John Lateran. Time permitting, we the wine into blood before his eyes. Modern scientific studies have will visit the Holy Stairs upon which Jesus was judged by Pilate. Return to determined the flesh to be human heart tissue, and the blood to be hotel for overnight in Rome. Dinner on your own. human of AB type. After lunch on our own, we will then travel to Man- oppello where another church preserves what some believe to be the Wednesday, November 9: Rome veil of Veronica. The veil, slightly transparent, shows the face of a This morning, we will hear the Holy Father give his weekly papal Audi- peaceful man with long hair, beard, open eyes and the mouth slightly ence. Take the afternoon free to explore Rome as you wish. Dinner and open. Its origin and composition remain mysterious. According to tradi- overnight in the hotel in Rome. tion, an anonymous pilgrim arrived here in 1508 with the cloth wrapped in a package. The pilgrim gave the package to a local doctor, Thursday, November 10: Rome – USA Dr. Giacomo Antonio Leonelli, who, in turn, gave it to the friars where Today, we head back to the Rome Airport for our return flight home. it remains today. We then continue on to the great Marian shrine of Loreto. According to tradition, this is the birth-home of Our Lady in addition to the site of the Annunciation. Brought here from Nazareth in *The itinerary is subject to change due to factors beyond our control. 1284 by crusaders returning from the Holy Land (according to tradition However, the focus on the spiritual nature of the trip will always be the carried by angels), countless , saints and blesseds have made a overall objective and will not change.