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Tour ID: 20-08.23 PL Fr. Swiderski Pilgrimage to Northern Poland with Rev. Jan Swiderski August 23 - 31, 2020 What’s included? Not Included In Package: Gratuities ($100 USD cash per person is collected Round Trip Air Transportation from NYC (if selected) on Day 2 to cover guide, hotel, driver, restaurant tips), Passport fees, meals Private Coach Ground Transportation overseas not indicated in itinerary, items of a personal nature, optional tours, items Comprehensive Sightseeing schedule with private guide(s) and wireless not mentioned in itinerary, etc. See Terms headsets Entrance fees according to program including Warsaw Uprising Museum, How do I sign up? Museum of St. Maximilian Kolbe in Niepokalanów, The Museum of WWII in Register online or send in a paper registration form to hold your space with Gdańsk, Malbork Castle Museum a deposit. Superior Tourist Hotel Accommodations, double occupancy with bath or Deadline to sign up and full payments due: Friday, April 24, 2020 shower (single supplement +$350) Breakfast in hotel, dinners at hotels and local restaurants as indicated (B, D) Where do we get more info? Hotel service charges and tax (at current rate) www.johnpaultours.com/poland2020 US airport taxes, fuel surcharges included** (subject to change in the rare occasion that gov’t/airline fees and fuel costs increase drastically) Cost per person: Daily Mass $ 2880.00 in dbl occupancy room w/ group air from NYC … a great time! $ 2140.00 in double occupancy room, Land Only $ 350.00 Single Supplement © 2019 John Paul Pilgrimages and Tours, Inc. | www.johnpaultours.com | 1-480-626-1266 ITINERARY- More Information and Online Registration at www.johnpaultours.com/poland2020 Sunday August 23 | Day 1 | USA - Warsaw, Poland Friday August 28 | Day 6 | Gdańsk - Oliwa - Gdańsk Depart from USA to Warsaw. Meals will be served aboard your transatlantic Today we slow our pace and enjoy this historic city on the sea. Today’s flight. itinerary includes Westerplatte, The Museum of WWII, the gate of Gdańsk Shipyard-Solidarity, and the Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Monday August 24 | Day 2 | Arrival in Poland - Warsaw Mary. The nearby harbor town of Gdynia is the youngest member of the Upon arrival today in Poland’s capital city, Warsaw, you will be met by your “tri–city complex” of Gdańsk, Sopot and Gdynia. Though the youngest, Escort who will be with you throughout the entire trip. Departing the Gdynia is a major seaport with beautiful beaches. Gdańsk, the oldest of the airport, we will drive the beautiful Royal Route. This afternoon we visit the three, is a magnificent restoration of a Hanseatic port city with a stunning Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego or Warsaw Uprising Museum. The Town Hall, Neptune’s Fountain, Gothic churches, romantic cobblestone alleys, Museum is a tribute of Warsaw’s residents to those who fought and died for and breezy harbor promenades. Time permitting, we venture to the independent Poland and its free capital. This evening, check in to your hotel outskirts of the city to Oliwa, a village with rich history since the Cistercians in Warsaw and enjoy a delicious Polish dinner together before retiring to established a monastery here in AD 1186. Dinner on your own, overnight in your room to rest. (D) Gdańsk. (B) Tuesday August 25 | Day 3 | Warsaw - Niepokalanów - Warsaw Saturday August 29 | Day 7 | Gdańsk – Frombork - Lidzbark Warmiński - Święta After breakfast depart to nearby Niepokalanów- The City of the Immaculata Lipka - Olsztyn founded by St. Maksymilian Kolbe, The Shrine of Our Mary Immaculate and Today we head east from Gdańsk to Frombork, an old historic town St. Maximilian Kolbe. Canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1984, Maximilian surrounded by walls with a beautiful Cathedral and the tomb of Copernicus. Kolbe dedicated his life to bringing souls to God through Mary and is known Continue to Lidzbark Warmiński, a town with a massive Bishop’s castle and by many titles: Martyr of Charity, The Saint of Auschwitz, Founder of the museum. After lunch visit nearby Święta Lipka with a unique history and Militia Immaculata, Apostle of Mary, Patron Saint of the 20th Century. Marian sanctuary. Dinner and overnight in nearby Olsztyn. (B, D) Celebrate Holy Mass in the chapel here, built by the Saint. After lunch return to Warsaw to tour the Old City, the beautiful Old Town Quarter, Market Sunday August 30 | Day 8 | Gietrzwałd - Malbork - Gdańsk Square, the Barbican and medieval defense walls. Dinner on your own and After breakfast we visit the very special ‘Lourdes of Poland’- Gietrzwałd. overnight in Warsaw. (B) Perhaps not as well known as Lourdes, this shrine is a major pilgrimage destination in Poland. The history dates at least as far back at the 16th Wednesday August 26 | Day 4 | Warsaw - Głogowiec - Licheń Stary - Toruń Century although the apparition itself took place between June 27 and This morning we depart to Głogowiec to visit the family home of Saint Maria September 16 of 1877, within a few years of the apparitions of Our Lady of Faustyna Kowalska. Continue on to Licheń Stary to visit the Basilica here, Lourdes and La Salette. Our Lady appeared to a young girl on that first day one of the tallest and largest churches in the world. Our path travels north and although she was with her mother at the time, only she saw the to Torún, the birthplace of the great astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. Dinner apparition. Our Lady requested that she return the next day, and she did, and overnight in Toruń. (B, D) but with a friend as well, and appeared to both of them, holding the baby Jesus in her lap. For the next 10 weeks the apparitions took place daily, Thursday August 27 | Day 5 | Toruń - Pelplin - Gdańsk always with the same message: “Pray the Rosary”. Later, head north to visit We start our morning at the Chapel of Remembrance in the Temple of Our the Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork, the largest brick castle in the Lady the Star of New Evangelization and St. John Paul II- the only memorial world measured by land area. Completed in the early 1400’s by the Teutonic of its kind in the world. It was created to pay tribute to these Poles who Knights and originally named Mary’s Castle (Marienburg), the mammoth risked their lives and the lives of their family members to save Jews during complex served as the headquarters of the crusaders. This afternoon we World War II. Visit the Old Town and tour the museum inside the House of arrive back in Gdańsk for last minute shopping and enjoy a special farewell Nicolaus Copernicus. This afternoon continue north toward Gdańsk on the dinner together. Overnight in Gdansk. (B,D) baltic coast. On the way, stop in Pelplin for Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption or Pelplin Abbey. Dinner as a group and late arrival in Gdańsk Monday August 31 | Day 9 | Gdansk - USA for overnight. (B, D) This morning we transfer to the airport for our return flight to the USA. (B) © 2019 John Paul Pilgrimages and Tours, Inc. | www.johnpaultours.com | 1-480-626-1266 Tour ID: 20-08.23 PL Fr. Swiderski Pilgrimage to Northern Poland with Rev. Jan Swiderski August 23 - 31, 2020 What’s included? Round Trip Air Transportation from NYC (if selected) Private Coach Ground Transportation overseas Comprehensive Sightseeing schedule with private guide(s) and wireless headsets Entrance fees according to program including Warsaw Uprising Museum, Museum of St. Maximilian Kolbe in Niepokalanów, The Museum of WWII in Gdańsk, Malbork Castle Museum Superior Tourist Hotel Accommodations, double occupancy with bath or shower (single supplement +$350) Breakfast in hotel, dinners at hotels and local restaurants as indicated (B, D) Hotel service charges and tax (at current rate) US airport taxes, fuel surcharges included** (subject to change in the rare occasion that gov’t/airline fees and fuel costs increase drastically) Daily Mass … a great time! Not Included In Package: Gratuities ($100 USD cash per person is collected on Day 2 to cover guide, hotel, driver, restaurant tips), Passport fees, meals not indicated in itinerary, items of a personal nature, optional tours, items not mentioned in itinerary, etc. See Terms Deadline to sign up and full payments due: Friday, April 24, 2020 For More Info: www.johnpaultours.com/poland2020 1) Registration Form | 1 per person | Complete ALL information |Print First, Middle, Last names EXACTLY as they appear in your passport Salutation (M r., Mrs., Rev., Sr., etc. ):__________ Last:___________________________________________ First and Middle:_______________________________________________ Preferred Name ( for name tag, etc. ): __________________________________ Birthdate MM:____________DD:____________YYYY:______________ Gender: M / F Mailing Address: ___________________________________________________________ City___________________________________ State_______________ Zip_________________ Phone: (___________) _____________- ____________ Email:_____________________________________________________( We will not spam you. We will send important updates.) Emergency Contact (not travelling): ________________________________________ Phone: (__________) __________- ____________ Relationship: ______________________ Special medical needs/ food allergies __________________________________________________________________________________________ (we will advise restaurants) 2) Package Options (all are per person) L and Only: $2,140 (do not purchase your own airfare until notified that minimum participation has been met, approximately 90 days prior to departure. See