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Fatima . Spain and Lourdes / 13 Days |
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DAY 01 |
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Depart
the USA to Portugal. Your flight includes meals, drinks, and
in-flight entertainment |
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DAY 02 |
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Arrive in
Lisbon and travel to Santarem. Take a short walk down the
narrow streets to the Church of St. Stephen, then continue
to the site of the blessed Sacrament known as the Holy
Miracle of Santarem. Continue to Fatima (D): FATIMA |
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DAY 03 |
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After
breakfast visit the Basilica of Our Lady, The Chapel of
Apparitions and the House of Francisco and Jacinta. Time for
individual spiritual activities, visits and sightseeing (B,
D): FATIMA |
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DAY 04 |
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After
breakfast ,depart for Coimbra and visit the convent where
Sister Lucia lives. Return to Fatima (B, D): FATIMA |
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DAY 05 |
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After
breakfast , continue westward into Spain and on to
Salamanca, the city with the oldest university in Spain,
founded at the beginning of the 13th century. Tour Salamanca
including the University and the New Cathedral (B, D):
SALAMANCA |
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DAY 06 |
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After
breakfast depart for Avila, the home town of Sainte Theresa
of Avila. Visit the convent and magnificent fortified walls.
Travel to Segovia and view the famous Roman Aqueduct and the
Alcazar. Early evening arrival in Burgos (B, D): BURGOS |
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DAY 07 |
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After
breakfast morning mass at Burgos Cathedral, one of the most
beautiful and largest gothic basilicas in Europe. Enjoy a
city tour, including a visit to Miraflores Carthusian
Monastery. Afternoon is at leisure (B, D): BURGOS |
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DAY 08 |
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After
breakfast early departure for Santo Domingo de Silos, a
Romanesque monastery built at the end of the 11th century
with a beautiful cloister. There you will hear the world
famous monks singing their heavenly chants. Continue north
to San Sebastian and into France. Arrive in Lourdes in the
early evening (B, D): LOURDES |
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DAY 09 |
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After
breakfast , today, visit the Basilica of St. Pius X, the
world's largest underground church, and Holy Mill where St.
Bernadette was born in 1844. Continue on to the "Cachot"
(Jail) where St. Bernadette lived at the time of the
Apparitions and the Grotto of Massaibelle, where the Blessed
Virgin appeared to St. Bernadette. After dinner, attend the
Torchlight Procession starting from the Grotto (B, D):
LOURDES |
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DAY
10 |
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After
breakfast , this morning, travel back to Spain and visit
Jaca and the Cathedral. Then, continue to Huesca to visit
the Opus dei Santuario de Torreciudad. Next, travel to
Zaragoza, where one of the world's largest Marian Shrines,
Our Lady of the Pillar, is located (B, D): ZARAGOZA |
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DAY
11 |
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After
breakfast , tour Zaragoza, including the fragrant Basilica
del Pilar, which was visited by Our Lady before her
Assumption. Continue to Madrid (B, D): MADRID |
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DAY
12 |
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After
breakfast , morning tour of Madrid. Visit the Plaza España,
the Royal Palace, and other important sites of the capital
of Spain. Balance of day at leisure (B, D): MADRID |
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DAY
13 |
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After
breakfast , transfer to the airport for your departure
flight (B. |
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TOUR
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Fatima . Spain and Lourdes / 13 Days
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ENDS |
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class) |
AIR&LAND
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FEB 14 |
MAR 21 |
1895 |
2095 |
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MAR 28 |
MAY 30 |
2055 |
2195 |
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JUN 06 |
JUL 04 |
2495 |
2595 |
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JUL 11 |
AUG 29 |
2195 |
2295 |
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SEP 05 |
SEP 12 |
2395 |
2575 |
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SEP 19 |
NOV 14 |
1995 |
2095 |
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NOV 21 |
DEC 12 |
1895 |
2055 |
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2011 |
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DEC 19 |
DEC 26 |
1995 |
2295 |
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JAN 02 |
MAR 20 |
1895 |
2055 |
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The pilgrimage
of Lourdes is founded on the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin to
a poor, fourteen-year-old girl, Bernadette Soubiroux. The first
apparition occurred 11 February, 1858. There were eighteen in all;
the last took place 16 July, of the same year. Bernadette often
fell into an ecstasy. The mysterious vision she saw in the hollow
of the rock Massabielle was that of a young and beautiful lady.
"Lovelier than I have ever seen" said the child. But the girl was
the only one who saw the vision, although sometimes many stood
there with her. Now and then the apparition spoke to the seer who
also was the only one who heard the voice. Thus, she one day told
her to drink of a mysterious fountain, in the grotto itself, the
existence of which was unknown, and of which there was no sign,
but which immediately gushed forth. On another occasion the
apparition bade Bernadette go and tell the priests she wished a
chapel to be built on the spot and processions to be made to the
grotto. At first the clergy were incredulous. It was only four
years later, in 1862, that the bishop of the diocese declared the
faithful "justified in believing the reality of the apparition". A
basilica was built upon the rock of Massabielle by M. Peyramale,
the parish priest. In 1873 the great "national" French pilgrimages
were inaugurated. Three years later the basilica was consecrated
and the statue solemnly crowned. In 1883 the foundation stone of
another church was laid, as the first was no longer large enough.
It was built at the foot of the basilica and was consecrated in
1901 and called the Church of the Rosary. Pope Leo XIII authorized
a special office and a Mass, in commemoration of the apparition,
and in 1907 Pius X extended the observance of this feast to the
entire Church; it is now observed on 11 February.
WHAT IS THE
MESSAGE OF FATIMA?
The Message of Fatima consists of a number of precise predictions,
requests, warnings and promises concerning the Faith and the world
which were conveyed by the Blessed Virgin Mary to three shepherd
children--Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco--in a series of apparitions
at Fatima, Portugal from May to October 1917.
WHAT DOES THE
MESSAGE OF FATIMA WARN?
It warns that if the requests of Our Lady of Fatima for the
Consecration of Russia and the First Saturday devotion are not
honored, the Church will be persecuted, there will be other major
wars, the Holy Father will have much to suffer and various nations
will be annihilated. Many nations will be enslaved by Russian
militant atheists. Most important, many souls will be lost.
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