Join Father HLALEDI ISAAC RAMAKGOLO on this spiritual Pilgrimage visiting 2 countries in Europe. Start off in Portugal, you will visit Lisbon, the Shrine of Fatima, Valinhos, Aljustrel, Batalha and Nazare. Next you head off to Poland and visit Warsaw, Auschwitz, Lagiewniki, Wadowice and Krakow. Some of your highlights in Poland will be Czestochowa and Jasna Gora monastery where you will visit the Black Madonna.
R53 995.00 pp/s based on 20 persons
(Subject to change)
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Tour Itinerary
Day 1: JOHANNESBURG TUE, 16 JUL 2024
Meet at O. R. Tambo International Airport at the check-in counter for your flight to Lisbon. Please ensure that you arrive at the airport at least 3 hours prior to departure time.
Overnight on board of your flight
Day 2: LISBON, FATIMA WED, 17 JUL 2024
Arrive in Lisbon, meet the guide and enjoy a panoramic tour of Lisbon, including St Anthony church. Thereafter continue to Fatima and check in to your accommodation upon arrival.
Dinner and overnight in Fatima
Day 3: FATIMA, VALINHOS, ALJUSTREL THU, 18 JUL 2024
After breakfast, meet the guide and transfer by coach to visit to Valinhos and Aljustrel, to see the houses of the three shepherds. Return to Fatima and visit the Shrine. In the afternoon, visit the permanent exhibition Light and Peace. Celebrate private Mass in a chapel of the shrine and then return to your accommodation.
Dinner and overnight in Fatima
Day 4: FATIMA, BATALHA, NAZARE, SANTAREM FRI, 19 JUL 2024
After breakfast meet the guide and travel to Batalha. Visit the Monastery of Batalha, which is the fulfilment of the D. João I’s promise to the Virgin Mary for having won the battle of Aljubarrota against the Spanish. The Monastery is widely decorated with manuelin and gothic elements. Enjoy some leisure time for lunch at a typical fishermen village called Nazaré where you can find “Sítio”, a promontory with the “Ermida da Memoria”. Continue on to Santarem and discover the church of the Holy Miracle related to what happened in Santarem in the XIV century. Celebrate possible private mass.
Return to Fatima for the International Rosary at the Chapel of the apparitions and candlelight procession.
Dinner and overnight in Fatima
Day 5: FATIMA, LOURDES SAT, 20 JUL 2024
After breakfast, enjoy the day at leisure in Fatima for private devotion or shopping.
Dinner and overnight in Fatima
Day 6: FATIMA, WARSAW SUN, 21 JUL 2024
After breakfast, check out of your accommodation and depart to Lisbon airport for your flight to Warsaw.
Arrive in Warsaw airport, collect your luggage and meet with the tour leader in the hall of the airport. Transfer to the city centre. Meet the guide and enjoy a visit of Warsaw, once called “Paris of the North”. The architecture changed a lot after the Second World War with communist type buildings, changing into modern economic trade centres of Warsaw. Visit the old city (Stare Miasto) with the Royal castle and situated just next to it the New city (Nowe Miasto) with its oldest building the Barbican. There after Lazienki park (Park Lazienkowski) with the palace on the water (Palac na wodzie) as well as the monument for the famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin. Visit Nowy Swiat street, Krakowskie Przedmiescie street, St. Anna church, the University of Warsaw and the birthplace of Madam Curie. Continue to your accommodation and check in.
Dinner and overnight in Warsaw.
Day 7: CZESTOCHOWA, AUSCHWITS, KRAKOW MON, 22 JUL 2024
After breakfast, check out of your accommodation and depart by coach for Czestochowa. Visit Czestochowa shrine, one of the most important places of the Catholic community in Poland. Each year over four million pilgrims visit this shrine.
Continue on to Jasna Gora monastery where you can find the Black Madonna image which was so precious to the Poles that they gave her the title the Queen of Poland.
In the early afternoon depart to Auschwitz – Birkenau museum. The former concentration camp Auschwitz – Birkenau was one of the three camps which was part of a whole complex based near Auschwitz. The second part of the complex was an extermination camp based in Birkenau, the third part of the camps was the labor camp in Monowitz. Since 1979 the whole camp Is part of the UNESCO’s list of world heritage sites. Departure to the hotel in Krakow.
Dinner and overnight in Krakow
Day 8: KRAKOW, LAGIEWNIKI TUE, 23 JUL 2024
After breakfast meet with your guide for a visit of Krakow Royal castle Wawel . (Visit of the cathedral and courtyard) as well as the Market Place, the cloth market, Saint Mary’s church, Jagiellonian University, Florian’s gate and the Barbican. In the early afternoon departure to Lagiewniki for a visit to the sanctuary situated in the buildings of the monastery of The Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy which was founded in 1891 as Lubomirski’s foundation for girls and women in need of moral renewal. Saint M. Faustina Kowalska lived and died in this Monastery in the period between world wars. Through Saint Faustina, Lord Christ gave the message of the Divine Mercy to the Church and to the whole world. Then a visit to John Paul II shrine in Lagiewniki. Enjoy the remainder of the day at leisure for private devotion.
Dinner and overnight in the Krakow
Day 9: WADOWICE, WIELICZKA WED, 24 JUL 2024
After breakfast depart to Wadowice.
“It all started here in this town, in Wadowice, everything. Life started, and school started, studies started, and the theatre started, and the priesthood started.” This is how John Paul II remembered his hometown during his visit on 16 June 1999. It was his third and last visit to Wadowice. It is here that Karol Wojtyla was born on 18 May 1920, in a tenement house owned by a Jew named Chaim Balamut. In Wadowice one can find a number of other places connected with Karol Wojtyla such as school buildings, the “Sokol” building, where he attended his first theatre classes, the confectionery where he had his famous cream and many others.
In the early afternoon, depart for Kalwaria Zebrzydowska for a visit of the sanctuary. A place where pilgrims worship the Passion of Christ as well as pray to his mother, Mary. Visit the Baroque basilica of Saint Mary of Angels, administered by the Bernardines living in the nearby monastery, one can see the miraculous image of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Kalwaria. Kalwaria was established in 1600 after the example of the way of the cross in Jerusalem.
Continue on to Wieliczka for a guided visit of salt mines built in the 13th century, it was one of the oldest salt mines in the world. The main attractions of the mine includes, the cathedral carved by local miners, three chapels and dozens of statues. Return to your accommodation.
Dinner and overnight in Krakow
Day 10: KRAKOW, WARSAW THU, 25 JUL 2024
After breakfast, check out of your accommodation and transfer to the Warsaw Airport for your flight to Johannesburg.
Overnight onboard your flight
Day 11: JOHANNESBURG FRI, 26 JUL 2024
Arrive at O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg
