~ 4 nights: A modern home/hotel with private baths, Medjugorje Breakfast and dinner daily Transportation by air-conditioned motor coach Tour Escort throughout
Not Included: Lunches, .
Travel Insurance
optional at
$99-$225. Tips to your host family, guide & driver
(Euro
6-8 per day). Items of a
personal nature.
Sample Day-by-Day Itinerary:
Day 1 - Depart USA
Departure from your home town for the overnight flight to France. Dinner
and breakfast will be served on board.
Day 2 - Lyon - La Salette
Upon your arrival in France this morning in Lyon Airport we will be met by our guide and driver and transfer to La Salette located in a high alpine pasture in the French Alps, La Salette is the site where the Virgin Mary appeared in
1846 to two shepherds, Melanie Matthew and Maximin Gird. Our Lady appeared to these shepherds crying, lamenting over the lack of observance of Sundays and the profaning of her Son's holy name. A spring forever marks the spot where the Virgin appeared and where millions of pilgrims come to in order to drink the fresh spring water and to pray. The stunning mountain scenery and lush mountain trails make La Salette one of the most spectacular pilgrimage site in France, with a beautiful Basilica built to honor the Virgin Mary. In
1996 La Salette celebrated the 250th anniversary of Our Lady's first appearance. Dinner and overnight in Corps.
Day 3 - La Salette - Paray Le Monial
Mass at Notre Dame De La Salette, then we continue our journey and travel North to Paray Le Monial. Dinner and overnight.
Day 4 - Paray Le Monial - Ars - Paray Le Monial
We start our day with Mass in hometown of the devotion of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Visit the Chapel of the Visitation where Jesus exposed His Sacred Heart to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque during a number of apparitions, Reliquary of St. Margaret containing her relics, located underneath a wax figure of the saint. Next we head to the pretty little town of Ars where St Jean-Marie Vianney, the patron saint of parish priests, spent a great part of his holy life giving powerful sermons and spending up to 20 hours a day in the confessional, sleeping Only * two hours a night. People continuously flowed into Ars from every part of France seeking his spiritual guidance and healing. The charity and love for people of this simple curate of Ars became famous all over the Christian world. He died in
1895 and his incorrupt body lies in repose, along with many relics from this saint who was canonized in
1925. Continue to Paray Le Monial.
Day 5 - Paray Le Monial - Lyon - Lourdes
A
fter an early breakfast we depart Paray le Monial for Lyon airport where we will board our 2 hour flight to Pau or Toulouse Airport (this flight is not included for Land Only * participants).
Upon your arrival in Lourdes transfer to your hotel. Relax or explore before dinner, followed by a candlelight procession before retiring. Dinner and overnight.
Days 6 & 7 - Lourdes
Mass at the Grotto, enjoy a video presentation telling the story of Lourdes, and walk in the footsteps of St Bernadette. See Boly Mill where St Bernadette was born and the "Cachot," an abandoned prison where Bernadette's impoverished family. Join your prayers with those of pilgrims from around the world as you pray for the sick, drink water from the miraculous spring or submerge yourself in the healing baths. Experience Christ's love as you walk the life-sized Stations of the Cross overlooking the holy Grotto. Kneel in the chapel built on the very rock of the Grotto, in obedience to the request of the "Immaculate Conception." Evenings are for Blessed Sacrament Procession before dinner. Your role in the universal church will have new meaning as you join the candlelight procession and group rosary.
Day 8 - Lourdes & Paris
After breakfast leave on the one-hour flight to Paris. Upon arrival in Paris, you will meet your new guide and transfer to for mass to the Shrine of the Miraculous Medal. View the incorrupt body of St Catherine Labouret whose guardian angel led her to the chapel where the Blessed Virgin displayed a vision of the miraculous medal and later the green scapular. The Virgin promised bountiful graces for all who wore these. Our sightseeing tour includes some of the most beautiful and important churches in the world such as Notre Dame Cathedral and Sacre Coeur, see the sights as the Eiffel Tower, L'Arc de Triomphe, and drive through the Champs Elysees. Enjoy other sights on this mostly panoramic tour. Return to the hotel for little relaxing, dinner and overnight.
Day 9
- Excursion to Nevers
Leave by motor coach for Nevers by way of the picturesque Loire Valley. After taking the veil in
1867, St Bernadette lived for 22 years as a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of Nevers. At least three times during her short life-time, she received the last Sacraments. She was gradually struck by other illnesses as well as asthma: among them, tuberculosis of the lung and a tubercular tumor on her right knee. St Bernadetee eventually died at the age of 35. See St Bernadette's incorrupt body at the convent of St Gildard, miraculously preserved since her death in
1879. Dinner and return to the hotel in Paris.
Day 10
- Excursion to Lisieux
After breakfast we travel northwest by motor coach to the town of Lisieux, the home of St Therese whom Pope Pius X called "the greatest saint of modern times." Her extraordinary love for God and service to humanity come alive as you visit the Basilica Cathedral of St Peter, and Les Buissonets, her family home. On display are relics, clothing, and personal objects belonging to the "little flower." View the statue depicting the Virgin Mary who smiled at St Therese during an ecstacy before curing her illness. Combine your prayers in the Carmel Chapel with those of the Carmelite sisters, just as St Therese did before her death in
1897. Return to Paris for dinner and overnight.
Day
11 -Paris - Medjugorje
Early morning departure from Paris for your flights to Medjugorje
.
Upon arrival, you'll be greeted by a tour guide and/or driver who will then take you on the 2 1/2 hour drive by private coach to the village of Medjugorje. Guide will be with your throughout your stay. Once there, you'll meet your fellow pilgrims and your spiritual leader and be introduced to your host family in whose modern and comfortable house you will be staying for the next four nights.
Days 12 to 14 - Medjugorje
The balance of your trip in Medjugorje is meant
to provide you with time for a personal retreat. As such, your time in
Medjugorje is not designed to be a “tour”, but rather to provide you with time
to pray, reflect, and explore on your own as you feel called. On arrival, you
will have an orientation tour after which a representative of 206 Tours will be
available should you have any questions or requests, however, you will not have
a guide with you through out your stay. Daily Mass in English, as well as
English confessions are available at St. James Church. During your stay in
Medjugorje you will have full discretion over how your time is spent, in order
to have the fullest spiritual experience possible. If you would prefer our
traditional pilgrimage/tour of Medjugorje, we would recommend you consider our
Tour #1 (www.206tours.com/tour1) which provides a tour escort and spiritual
leader through out your stay.
Experience the beauty and peace of this simple village. During your stay in Medjugorje you will have the opportunity to share faith with pilgrims from all over the world. Our local guide will accompany us throughout your stay.
Here are some of the activities you'll be sharing with our fellow pilgrims: Each morning at 10am we assemble at St James Church for the English-language Mass (Feast days and Sundays English Mass is at Noon). Follow the path up Apparition Hill where the visionaries first encountered Our Lady. Touch and pray before the cross that commemorates the spot where Mary first appeared to the visionaries.
Each evening at 5pm or 6pm daylight savings time, we will join the villagers and pilgrims to pray the rosary. The apparition takes place at 5:40pm or 6:40 daylight savings time, and then stay on for Croatian Mass. Don't miss on Tuesdays and Saturdays Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and on Fridays Veneration of the Cross in the Church. Each evening during Croatian Mass, there is the Blessing of the Sick and blessing of the items you have with you.
Our guide will arrange meetings with the visionaries at their own homes provided that they are in Medjugorje during your trip, and pending their availability. We will have the opportunity to climb Krizevac Mountain, where in 1933 the villagers built a 30' high cross on the anniversary of Jesus' crucifixion. Visit and pray at "Blue Cross", which is a place of great healings and graces- a very special place at the base of Apparition Hill.
Day 15 - Medjugorje - USA
After an early breakfast and heartfelt farewells, we leave by motor coach for Dubrovnik Airport (Spilt or Sarajevo) for return flights home
For Additional Information & Travel Tips Please Visit:
Land & Flights one-way from Lyon to Lourdes, Lourdes to Paris & Paris to Medjugorje (no intl airfare or departure/return airport transfers are included)
Round-trip air from New York
(special 
