• Make your way to your local airport, where you will board your overnight flight(s).
• Your meals will be served on board.

• Arrival & orientation.
• Check into hotel near Montmartre.
• Evening visit to the Basilica of Sacré-Cœur for adoration and opening reflection: “Entrusting Our Knots to Mary.”
• Welcome dinner.

• Breakfast at Hotel.
• Morning Mass at Notre-Dame Cathedral (if restored; otherwise at nearby St. Sulpice).
• Walk along the Seine, explore Île de la Cité.
• Afternoon: visit St. Catherine Labouré Chapel (Miraculous Medal Shrine) on Rue du Bac.
• Reflection: “Mary’s Yes – Undoing the Knot of Fear.”
• Dinner and overnight.

• Breakfast at Hotel.
• Tour of the Louvre (focus on Marian and biblical art).
• Lunch near the Tuileries Gardens.
• Afternoon: Les Catacombes (Underground Paris) — meditation on mortality and resurrection.
• Reflection: “Mary, Companion in Darkness.”
• Dinner and overnight.

• Breakfast at Hotel.
• Day excursion to Chartres to visit Notre-Dame Cathedral (famous stained-glass windows of Mary).
• Guided prayer through the Chartres Labyrinth.
• Reflection: “Mary, Guide on the Pilgrim’s Path.”
• Return to Paris for dinner and overnight.

• Breakfast at Hotel.
• Travel to Rouen.
• Visit Joan of Arc’s Memorial Church and historical sites of her martyrdom.
• Reflection: “Mary and Courage in the Fire of Trial.”
• Continue to Lisieux.
• Dinner and overnight.

• Breakfast at Hotel.
• Visit Basilica of St. Thérèse, her family home, and Carmel monastery.
• Group reflection: “The Little Way and Humility.”
• Evening: Silent adoration and journaling.
• Dinner and overnight.

• Breakfast at Hotel.
• Visit Omaha Beach and the American Cemetery.
• Moment of silence and intercessory prayer for peace.
• Reflection: “Mary at the Foot of the Cross – Undoing the Knot of Suffering.”
• Continue to Mont Saint Michel.
• Dinner and overnight.

• After breakfast continue to Tours.
• Visit the Chinon Castle, an imposing medieval fortress housing the Museum of Joan of Arc in its clock tower.
• Continue to Poitiers, where Joan of Arc met with the heads of the French kingdom and they tested the seriousness of her intentions.
• In Poitiers visit the 11th century Notre Dame La Grande Cathedral with its impressive Romanesque facade.
• We continue to Loches and visit the Logis Royal and the Donjon, another place where the Royal court lived during the time of the Hundred Years War.
• Return to Tours this evening for dinner at our hotel.

• Breakfast at Hotel.
• Enjoy scenic day toward Lourdes.
• Optional group sharing and guided meditation on the bus: “Mary’s Knots in Our Lives.”
• Check into Hotel.
• Mass followed by Candlelight Procession.
• Dinner and overnight.

• Morning Mass at the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes.
• Visit baths (if open), participate in the Blessing of the Sick.
• Reflection: “Mary, Undoer of the Knot of Suffering and Illness.”
• Candlelight procession in the evening.

• Stations of the Cross up the hill.
• Time for confession, silence, or journaling.
• Afternoon visit to the Basilica of the Rosary.
• Closing reflection: “Mary, Undoer of the Knot of Sin.”
• Farewell dinner and group sharing.

This morning, you will begin with breakfast and continue with a transfer to the Lyon airport for your return flight(s) home.

*206 Tours Disclaimer:
Occasionally local religious and national holidays, weather, traffic conditions and other events may necessitate changes in the sequence of events or the missing of certain events/places. Though every effort will be made to follow the itinerary, it should be considered as an indication, rather than a contract of events and places to be visited.