IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX & Carmelite Chaplain : ST. ELIZABETH OF THE TRINITY TBA Monday, September 28 – Sunday, October 11, 2020 Tour Host: (Airline taxes/fuel surcharges) - Optional Insurance - $397.00 Beth Maddatu Land Only - $3,350.00 - Optional Insurance - $316.00 Single Room Supplement $650.00 I T I N E R A RY Monday, October 11, 1999 FridayOctober 15, 1999 Monday, October 18, 1999 DEPART USA/MILAN PISA/FLONCE ASSISI/SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO Our SpiritualDay Journey 1 - Monday begins, September as we depart 28, 2020 Today, we will have BreakfastGrace is where at our St. Hotel Therese Holyprayed Massfor her entranceand Breakfast to Carmel. in We Assisi. will then enjoy the USA on DEPARTour transatlan SAN FRANCISCtic flight O to and then take our motorcoachsome time andat leis driveure into theMorning city center. Tour For lunchof the (not places included), associated take advantage Our pilgMilan,rimage Italy.begins Dinneras we departand Breakfast San Francisco will be on ourPisa, flight the LX039, historic at townand situated order seafood.on the Arno In the afternoonwith St. we willFrancis drive Deauviland le,Santa a sea shoreClara, where St. 7:55pm.served in flight. River. We visit the TheresePiazza Deiand herMiracoli, family usedincluding to spend the their Basilica time during of St. the Francis, summer. the Return to Day 2 - Tuesday, September 29, 2020 the Cathedral and Lisieux.Baptistery Balance with of theits day Crypt at leisure and, for spend personal time activities. shopping Return tofor the hotel Tuesday, OctoberARRIVE 12, PARIS 1999 famous Organ & Echo,for dinner and and the overnight. world- religious items. In the afternoon, continue Arrive Zurich at 3:45pm. ThenMILAN transfer to flight LX656 to renewedParis, at 4:50pm.Leaning Tower. After Holy Mass, to San Giovanni Rotondo. Arrival and Arrive Paris at 6:05pm. After checking through immigration weand continuecustoms, weto Florence. Dinner andDay transfer 6 - Saturday to , ourOctober Hotel 3, 2020for Dinner and will be Uponwelcomed arrival by our at tourMilan escort Airport, and bus we driver. will beThen weOvernight transfer atto Outher Hotel. LISIEUX / Overnight.SEMALLE / ALENCON / CHARTRES hotel formet dinner by andour overnightLocal Representative. and then In the morning, we will drive to Semallle, and we visit the farmhouse where St. take a short orientation City Tour of Milan Therese lived with the family of her Monday, wet-nurse, October Rose Taille. 19, She1999 lived there from includingDay Milan 3 - Wednesday Cathedral,, SeptemberChurch of 30,St. 2020 Saturday, OctoberMarch 16,1873 1999, when she wasS.G.ROTONDO/LANCIANO/ROME three months old, until April 1874; when, at 15 Mary of Grace (Santa MariaPARIS delle Grazie), FLORENCEmonths, then she returned to her family in Alencon. We continue to Alencon, the After breakfast,The Duomo we d riveand to the the CenterBasilica of Ourthe LadTown.y of Victories . Both Saints birthplace of St. Therese. Depart We will Assisialso visit after her childhoodBreakfast home, to aSans well as have visitedAfternoon this church; at leisure St. Theresein Milan in to 1887 rest andafter St. Elizabeth Morning in 1900. Breakfast Alencon’s and HolyBasilica, Mass, where GiovanniMarie-Francoise where- Theresewe first visitMartin the was Church baptized of , and Since, theour Canonizationlong flight. of DinnerSts. Louis and and Overnight Zelie Martin at in 2015,followed there byis nowa guided hetourre weof Florence.will celebrate We Mass. St. In Maria the late Delle afternoon Grazie, continue then payto Chartres. a visit toCheck in an altarour of them Hotel. here. Then, we will have a panoramic tour ofvisit Paris the; including Academy atMuseum the hotel, to for seedinner the and overnight.the Tomb of the Capuchin monk blest with the Cathedral of Notre Dame (from outside), Champs originalElysees, Arcpainting de of David, onto the the Stigmata for 50 years. Continue to th Triumph and Wednesday,stop at the Eiffel October Tower 13, for 1999pictures . Then, Cathedraldrive to visit S. theMaria Del Fiore, the Duomo,Day Lanciano, 7 - Sunday site, October of the 84, 2020century ‘Miracle of Basilica of the SMILAN/VERONA/PADUAacre Coeur, to celebrate Mass. Sacre Coeurthe was Baptistery the starting with the Golden doors of theCHARTRES Eucharist’ displayed/ DIJON in the Monstrance. point of St. Therese Pilgrimage , at 15 years old to Rome, tGhiberti,o ask permission Giotto’s BellToday Tower, we and will ontovisit the the magnificent Continue 13th to Rome.century cathedral,Arrival and home transfer of the veilto worn from theAfter Pope Btoreakfast enter the at Carmelite our Hotel, order. we Also, depart St. Elizabeth historical went to center Paris of theby thetown Blessed Piazza Vir Dellagin Mary our. Then Hotel we willfor driveOvernight. to Dijon for Mass, at the Church of only onceMilan in 1900, on our the yearway beforeto Verona. she entered Arrival Carmel. at WeSignoria. will have Afternoonsome St.at leisureMichel. Thenin Florence dinner and overnight in Dijon. Verona, and a short visit to the Center of for a time of relaxation. Dinner and Tuesday, October 20, 1999 time at leisure in Montmartre. Then we will enjoy a river cruise along the Day 8 - Monday, October 5, 2020 Seine andthe speTown.nd some Later, time we at leisurecontinue. Return to Padua, to the hotelOvernight for dinner at andour Hotel. ROME home of St. Anthony, Patron Saint of DIJON / FLAVIGNEROT / DIJON overnight. We will spend the morning in Dijon, to enjoy a guided tour of the city center; ‘Things Lost’.Day 4Holy – Thursday Mass at, October the Basilica 1, 2020 After breakfast, we begin our day with built in his honor. Dinner and Overnight in Sunday, Octoberincluding 17, the1999 Church of St. MassMichel ,at which the hoVaticanuses St. andElizabeth’s then majorvisit relicsthe . It is PARIS / LISIEUX also where she attended daily mass. In The afternoon, we will drive to the village Today, Padua.we continue our drive to Lisieux. Upon arrival, we celebrateFLORENCE/SI Mass in ENA/ASSISI Vatican Museum, Tapestries Gallery, of Flavignerot, to visit theSistine Carmelite Chapel, Convent the , Vaticanwhere St Library, Elizabeth and an d her the Basilica. The Basilica contains the crypt (that holds the reliquary) of St. community was moved to a quieter place, as the city of Dijon had become a very Therese’s parents.Thursday, In the Octoberafternoon, 14, we 1999 continue with Thisthe visit:morning, The after Breakfast, we drive later we visit Christian Rome. Overnight at VENICE through the wine regionbusy and to noisythe towncity . ofWe willour celebrate Hotel. Mass at the Carmelite Monastery Chapel. Buissonnets house (where St. Therese lived her childhood), St Peter’s We will also visit the little museum of St Elizabeth. Then we will return to Dijon, for Cathedral, that was the parish for St Therese and her family.Sienna, It was here,birthplace in a of St. Catherine, Virgin Breakfast at our Hotel. Then we drive to and Doctor of the Church.dinner andOur overnight. short visit chapel that St Therese, along with her family, attended the Sunday Mass, she receivedVenice, many one Eucharisticof the world’s graces unique there. Wecities. continue will to includethe Carmel the Cross from which St. We celebrate Holy Mass at St. Mark’s Catherine received the Stigmata. We strollDay 9 -Tuesday, October 6, 2020 Chapel, that contains the tomb of St. Therese (“The Little Flower”). She is DIJON / PARAY LE MONIAL / LYON representedCathedral, there lyingafter onwhich her deathbedwe stroll wearingthrough the the habit through of the Carmelite the silent narrow streets from the Square, visiting Doges Palace and the central square of PiazzaAfter Del breakfast, Campo, weto thewill drive to Paray Le Monial, which is the home of the order. We also have time to visit the Carmel Museum, to see the numerous devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. We visit the Chapel of the Visitation, where authenticBridge objects. of ReturnSights. to theAfter hotel spending for dinner timeand overnight. in Piazza Del Duomo, overshadowed by the beautiful Venice, we return to our Hotel in tall marble Cathedral.Jesus Continue exposed to HisAssisi. Sacred Heart to St. Margaret Mary-Alacoque, in 1673-1675. Also, this is where St. Elizabeth visited in 1900. In 1901 a new Carmel of Dijon Padua for DinnerDay and5 -Friday Overnight., October 2, 2020 Dinner and Overnight at our Hotel. was established. It was decided the St. Elizabeth would enter here, but at the last LISIEUX / HONFLEUR / DEAUVILLE / LISIEUX minute the prioress let her stay in Dijon out of deference to her mother. We will After breakfast, we drive towards the north, to the city of Honfleur. We visit also celebrate Mass. In the afternoon, we continue to Lyon. Upon arrival, we the Church of Our Lady of Grace, where we also celebrate Mass. Our Lady of check in at the hotel for dinner and overnight. Day 10 - Wednesday, October 7, 2020 get cured from her cancer. When Elizabeth was eighteen, she wrote verses, LYON / CARCASSONNE “O Lourdes, O River Gave, O sanctuary, mysterious and solitary Grotto, place This morning, we will drive to Carcassonne. Upon arrival, we will enjoy a walking where the breath of God passed, Oh! You seem to be a corner of Heaven!” Tuesday, October 20, 1999 tour of the town, an UNESCO World Heritage Center, an outstanding example of We start the day with breakfast, then we celebrate Mass at the Carmelite ROME a medieval fortified town. Carcassonne remind us of St Theresa’s Interior Castle. Monastery. We visit the historical and spiritual sites associated with the Dinner and overnight in Carcassonne. visionary child Bernadette. We begin at the Grotto of the Apparitions and then After breakfast, we begin our day with continue on a guided walking tour visiting the Basilica of St. Pius X, Boly Mill, Mass at the Vatican and then visit the Day 11 - Thursday, October 8, 2020 Soubirous family home, the Basilica of the Rosary, the miraculous spring and Vatican Museum, Tapestries Gallery, CARCASSONNE / SAINT HILAIRE / LIMOUX / CARCASSONNE the healing baths.