10 days October 4 - 13, 2021 You’re invited to join the Mary Immaculate Choir & Schola (MIC) of St. Stephen of Hungary Parish - Allentown, PA on a Traditional Pilgrimage to Rome Fr. Gregory Pendergraft, FSSP Jubilee Pilgrimage of Our Lady’s Victory at Lepanto Fr. Daniel Alloy, FSSP The Lepanto Foundation, organizer of the celebration & Congress to mark the 450th anniversary of Our Blessed Lady's victory at the battle of Lepanto, has invited the Chaplains (pending MIC to chant holy Mass in the traditional Gregorian form, to open the jubilee year. permissions of superiors) Your itinerary* Monday, October 4: Our pilgrimage begins as we depart from our local the Scala Sancta, the steps from Pontius Pilate’s palace brought to Rome by airport for an overnight flight to Rome, Italy. St. Helena. Independent supper. Tuesday,October 5: Upon arrival in Rome, we’ll be greeted by our Canterbury Saturday, October 9: Today we will walk to the one of the loveliest and tour manager and will stop by the hotel or religious house before an quietest parts of Rome, the Caelian Hill. On our way, we will pass the Circus afternoon walk to explore the Velabro, where Romulus and Remus were Maximus viewing to our left and the Palatine Hill. Following Mass at Santi raised by the Palatine Wolf. We will visit San Giorgio in Velabro (venerate the Giovanni e Paulo we will explore the Roman houses beneath this church relics of Sts. Sebastian and George) and Santa Maria in Cosmedin (relics of before visiting Santi Quattro Corinati including the Capella San Sylvestro St. Valentine). If time allows, we will also see the best-preserved buildings of and the Cloister. Next we’ll see San Stefano Rotunda. After a group lunch, Rome’s Republic era: The Forum Boarium, the ruins of the Largo Argentina, we will visit San Clemente and its excavations. Pilgrims who wish to visit the the Portico of Octavia, the Jewish Ghetto, and the Theater of Marcellus. We Flavian Amphitheater (Colosseum), the nearby house church of Ss. Sergius enjoy a welcome reception, supper on our own, and have the remainder of and Bacchus (at the Ukrainian church and center), the Roman Forum, or the the evening to rest. Palatine Hill may do so independently. Independent supper. Wednesday, October 6: After breakfast, we’re off to Saint Peter’s Square for Sunday, October 10: Today’s pilgrimage resumes with solemn holy Mass the general audience with the Holy Father (subject to the Pope’s schedule). celebrated by our Chaplains and chanted by the MIC at Trinità dei Pellegrini, Following a lunch break, we’ll visit St. Peter’s Basilica, venerate Blessed Peter church of the the Fraternity of St. Peter in Rome. Later we visit Santa Sabina, at his Tomb, and venerate other saints (St. Jospahat) buried in the Basilica, headquarters of the Dominican Order in Rome.We’ll visit Santa Maria del built on the site where St. Peter, the chief apostle, died a martyr and was Priorato, the church of the Knights of Malta and then stroll through the buried in 64 AD. We walk back to our hotel by way of The Via Pellegrini (The medieval neighborhood of Trastevere, literally “across the Tiber.” We’ll visit San Way of the Pilgrims) and see Castel Sant’Angelo, Ponte Sant’Angelo, and step Franceso a Ripa, home to a magnificent Bernini statue and St. Francis’s “pillow.” into The Chiesa Nuova – St. Philip Neri’s Church. We enjoy Mass together this We’ll visit Santa Cecilia’s Basilica and admire Moderno’s sculpture of this saint. evening and a group supper. After an independent lunch in Trastevere, we will visit San Chrysogono and Thursday, October 7: Following breakfast – for those not attending the Santa Maria in Trastevere (where St. Anna Maria Taigi is buried) followed by Lepanto Congress – we begin the day walking of the Centro Storico, the free time for shopping before our group supper. Historic Center of Rome. Depending on the MIC’s schedule at the Congress, Monday, October 11: Today we will see some of the most brilliant and one of our Chaplains may celebrate Mass at San Luigi dei Francesi.; followed by important apse mosaics in Rome, crucial to our understanding of early a visit St. Agostino, where St. Monica rests, and The Jesu, the Jesuit Church in Christian liturgy. Following Mass at Cosmas and Damien we will stroll up the Rome, home to the right arm of Francis Xavier. Following a generous break for Esquiline hill and visit Santa Pudenziana built over a home where tradition lunch we will visit the Pantheon and Santa Maria Sopra Minerva where Galileo holds St. Peter offered Mass. Next we’ll visit the Church of Santa Prassede, her was tried, and where (some of!) St. Catherine of Siena rests. Depending on sister. We’ll end our morning at the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore. After this the time of holy Mass to be sung by the MIC in the chapel of St. Pius V at St. easy morning, pilgrims will have free time until our group supper. Mary Major Basilica, we’ll walk back to our hotel by way of three of Rome’s Tuesday, October 12: We will start our day with Mass at Santa Maria Della most famous piazzas: the Piazza Navona, the Piazza Farnese, and the Campo Vittoria, home to Bernini’s most famous sculpture, St. Theresa in Ecstasy. de Fiori. Group dinner. From there we will walk to the Piazza Barbarini where we visit the creative Friday, October 8: Following breakfast, we will depart the hotel by bus and ossuary of Santa Maria Concezione. We then make our way to the famous have Mass at the Church of St. Agnes Outside the Walls where her bones are Spanish steps before visiting the Trevi Fountain – and throwing in a coin to be kept. We will also see one of the less busy catacombs in Rome, a foundation sure we return to Rome! After a break for lunch and shopping, we will have of one of the earliest Constantinian basilicas. Next, we will visit St. Lawrence a short ride to the Galleria Borghese a Renaissance Palazzo, home to some Outside the Walls which is home of the relics of Justin Martyr, St. Lawrence, of Bernini’s greatest works. We will meet for a reception and dinner in the and Blsd. Pius IX. After a group lunch we will visit Santa Croce in Gerusalemme evening to bid one another farewell and to say, “Arrivaderci Roma!” built over the home of Constantine’s mother, St. Helena, where the Passion Wednesday, October 13: Following breakfast, we transfer to Rome’s airport Relics reside. Highlight of the day will be the veneration of St. Paul in the this morning. With a renewed sense of pilgrimage, and an invigorated love of Basilica Outside the Walls. Time permitting, we’ll conclude the day’s visits our Catholic faith, we’ll board our plane for the return flight home. Godspeed! with the oldest church in Rome, St. John Lateran, and have a chance to climb In the unlikely event this pilgrimage is postponed due to travel restrictions, any *Itinerary in draft, and subject to change by organizers. payments made toward your trip will be honored on postponed dates in 2022. 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