T  O U R  16
L O U R D E S,  L O Y O L A   &
G A R A B A N D A L
8, 9 or 12 Days

Day 2 Paris - Lourdes
Upon your arrival in Paris this morning, we connect to the 1-hour flight to Lourdes.  Arrive in Lourdes about noon and transfer to your hotel.  Relax or explore before dinner, followed by the candlelight procession before retiring.

Days 3 Lourdes
During your stay in Lourdes you will have a chance to celebrate daily Mass at the Grotto, enjoy a video presentation telling the story of Lourdes, and walk in the footsteps of St Bernadette.  See the Boly Mill where St. Bernadette was born, view the “Cachot” an abandoned prison where Bernadette’s impoverished family lived in humility.  Join your prayers with pilgrims from around the world as you pray for the sick, drink water from the miraculous spring or submerge yourself at the Baths which claim thousands of healings. Experience Christ’s love as you walk the life-size 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 free for optional Blessed Sacrament Procession before dinner.  Your role in the universal church will have new meaning as you join the candlelight procession and group rosary.  Dinner and overnight.

Day 4 Lourdes - Loyola - Santander
After breakfast we leave for the beautiful city of Loyola.  We will celebrate Mass at the Basilica and enjoy a short tour of the home town of St Ignatius de Loyola.  It was in Loyola that Our Lady appeared to St Ignatius with the Christ Child and his profound conversion began.  Later in his life, St. Ignatius renounced his portion of his family’s wealth, wrote the famous book of spiritual exercises and became the founder of the Jesuit Order.  After lunch, we continue our journey to Santander (our base for the next 4 days).  We will settle into our deluxe hotel for dinner and overnight.

Days 5, 6 & 7 Santander - Garabandal - Santander
After breakfast, we motor through the scenic countryside of Spain to the hamlet of Garabandal.  This sparsely populated village consists of only about 80 humble dwellings in the Cantabrian Mountains.  Little has changed in this rural town since June 18, 1961 when four children had an apparition first of an Angel sent to prepare the children for a visit from the Virgin.  From July 2,
1961 sporadically until  November 13, 1965, the Blessed Virgin visited them, speaking, guiding and confiding secrets of future events.  The children reported a promised future miracle at the grove of pine trees on a bluff overlooking the village of Garabandal. It will be on the feast-day of a little known martyr of the Eucharist and coincide with an event in the Church.  Visionary Conchita Gonzalez Keena knows the date and will announce it eight days in advance, with a promise that all present in the village or on the surrounding mountains will witness the spectacular event.  Those in attendance who are sick will be cured, sinners converted, and the incredulous will believe."  During your stay you will have time for reflection, devotions and follow
the Stations of the Cross.  Speak with villagers who witnessed the apparitions, attend Mass and bask in the tranquility.  Lunch boxes will be provided.  Return motor coach trip to our hotel in Santandar for dinner and overnight.

Day 8 Santander - Madrid - New York
After breakfast we depart Santander for the airport in Madrid for our return flight to New York.
 

Your Trip Includes:
   Round trip flights from New York / Paris / Lisbon / New York
         6 nights accommodations at 4 star hotels (or similar)
         2 nights  St Savour Hotel in Lourdes, France
         4 nights  Hotel Santemar in Santander, Spain
   Breakfast and dinner daily
   All transfers by private motor coach 
   Sightseeing tours and entrance fees 
   Local guides and tour escorts 
   Luggage handling and hotel taxes
   Mass daily
   Flight bag and portfolio of travel documents

Not Included:   Lunch. Airport tax of $85. Travel insurance at $99. Tips to guides and drivers ($5 per day).

   1 night in Avila
   Breakfast and dinner
   Transfers and tour guide
   Tour of Avila including many of the convents associated with St Teresa of Avila,  the great
       Spanish mystic, writer, and saint
   Return flight from Madrid

Day 8 Santander - Salamanca
After breakfast we leave for the beautiful city of Salamanca. Our tour  includes the 16th-century Plateresque buildings where the Convent of the Holy Spirit is located; the 16th-century House of the Dead, and Monterrey Palace. Dinner and overnight.

Day 9 Salamanca - Fatima
After breakfast we leave Salamanca and travel west to Portugal. In the early afternoon, we arrive in beautiful Fatima, the location of the Blessed Mother who appeared in 1917 to three simple shepherd children and exhorted mankind to pray for world peace.  After settling into your hotel, you may participate in the candlelight procession or relax.  Dinner and overnight

Days 10 & 11 Fatima
After breakfast, we will celebrate morning Mass at the Little Chapel of the Apparitions.  We will tour Fatima and see the Basilica, site of Francesco's and Jacinta's graves; the Hamlet of Aljustrel, where the children lived; and Valinhos, the site of Our Lady's appearance after the children's return from prison.  Follow the Stations of the Cross along the Via Sacra (The Sacred
Way) was built by Hungarian refugees and culminates in the Chapel of Calvary which overlooks all of Fatima. Join pilgrims from around the world in an evening candlelight procession to pray the rosary.  Don’t forget your white handkerchief for the Adeus farewell, when thousands of pilgrims wave a loving farewell to the statue of Our Lady of the Rosary.  Dinner and overnight in
Fatima.

Day 12 Fatima - Lisbon - New York
After breakfast we drive to the town of Santarem.  A short walk through narrow streets brings us to the Church of St Stephen where you will behold the blessed Sacrament known as the Holy Miracle of Santarem. This venerated relic of the Bleeding Host has been kept here since 1269. Our TWA flight leaves Lisbon, flying direct to New York’s JFK airport or then onto your home
town.

All Optional trips include airfare, first class hotel accommodations, breakfast and dinner daily, guided tours, sight-seeing admission, transfers and luggage handling.