10 day ITINERARY
to
POLAND AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA
DAY 1 USA-POLAND
Departure from your hometown to
Poland
DAY 2
WARSAW
After
breakfast on board, arrival in Warsaw and meet our local
guide who will be with us for the entire trip in Poland.
Celebrate Mass at the convent where Saint
Faustina first joined the religious order and then
visit
the Holy
Cross church located on the historic "Royal Way",
where Chopin's heart is preserved in one of the pillars
and St. Stanislaus Church.
Dinner and overnight in
Warsaw.
DAY 3 WARSAW-CZESTOCHOWA-KRAKOW
After breakfast, travel to
Czestochowa
, site of
Poland
's greatest pilgrimage shrine,
Our Lady of
Czestochowa. Visit Jasna
Gorna Monastery, known as the Shrine of The Black
Madonna.
Celebrate Mass at the Pauline
Monastery and venerate the priceless treasures contained
within,
including the Miraculous Icon. Have
time for yourself before go to Krakow. Dinner
and overnight in
Krakow
DAY 4
KRAKOW
-
LAGIEWNIKI -DIVINE MERCY
After breakfast,
drive to
Lagiewniki
for a full day where St. Faustina lived and is buried at
the Convent
of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy.
Celebrate Mass and have an introduction to the area by one
of
the Sisters. Free time for personal
reflection before we pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet
with the Sisters.
Return to Krakow for dinner.
DAY 5
KRAKOW
After breakfast, celebrate Mass at the Basilica of the
Blessed Virgin Mary and then enjoy a city tour
including
Cloth Hall and the
famous
Wawel
Castle
which houses the Cathedral
where the Polish
Monarchs are buried. A free
afternoon to shop or wander at your leisure.
After dinner, be entertained by
local Folklore Dancers.
DAY 6 KRAKOW-AUSCHWITZ - WADOVICE -KALWARIE
After breakfast, a day trip to
Auschwitz
, the notorious Nazi
concentration camp. Visit St Maximillian
Kolbe's cell and the
Martyrdom
Museum
recalling the horrors of the
Holocaust. In the afternoon we will
drive to Wadowice, the town
where John Paul II, the first Polish Pope, was born and
spent his youth.
Celebrate Mass
at
the church where the Holy Father prayed as a youth and
celebrated as a new priest. On the way we
will stop at Karlowarie.
Dinner and overnight in
Krakow
.
DAY 7 KRAKOW-PRAGUE
After breakfast leave Poland and enter Czechoslovakia, for
the enchanting city of
Prague "The Golden
City of
a Hundred Spires."
Dinner and overnight in
Prague
DAY 8
PRAGUE
After breakfast, celebrate Mass at the Church
of Our Lady Victorious, venerate the celebrated
statue of the infant Jesus.
Enjoy a tour of Old
Town
by way of
Golden Lane
and then to
Lessor
Town
to see the medieval
Charles
Bridge
adorned with many baroque
statues. We will see St Nicholas Church, the
Astronomic Clock, and the Prague Castle district
where we tour St George Basilica, Loreto Church,
Strahov Monastery, and Wenceslas Square. Dinner and
Overnight in
Prague
.
DAY 9 PRAGUE
After breakfast, a free day to wander Prague as
you will. A special farewell Mass at
St. Vitus
Cathedral. Dinner and overnight in Prague
DAY 10 PRAGUE-USA
After breakfast, transfer to the airport for our
international flight home
with many memories to
Give Thanks and
Remember.
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