After breakfast, we will visit the Castle Square, St. Vitus Cathedral and St.Nicholas Church. We will walk a long the Lesser Quarter, and celebrate Holy Mass at Our Lady Victorious Church, where the renowned statue of the Infant Jesus of Prague resides. We will cross the well-known stone Gothic bridge called Charles Bridge which take us out of the Lesser Quarter. Visit the renowned Renaissance Town Hall with its astronomical clock and then proceed to the Church of Mother of God.
This morning we visit and celebrate Holy Mass at Loreta, a pilgrimage complex that consists of a cloister, the church of the Lord’s Birth, and a Holy Hut believed to be the Virgin Mary’s house that was miraculously relocated from Nazareth. We will depart Prague for Wroclaw for an overnight stay.
After breakfast, we travel to Lodz, where St. Faustina worked as a youth. Here we will visit the Lodz Ghetto, the second largest Ghetto in Poland after the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII. Then visit the Church of St. Casimir where St. Faustina was baptized. Later in the afternoon we will travel to Warsaw where we will enjoy a panoramic tour that includes the Warsaw Uprising Monument, Lazienki Park, the Chopin Statue, the Royal Castle and the Ghetto Memorial.
I n the morning visit and celebrate Holy Mass at St. James Church where St. Faustina used to attend. We continue to Niepokalanow where we visit the Franciscan Monastery founded by St. Maximillian Kolbe. We continue our journey to arrive in Czestochowa, the home of the most famous pilgrimage shrine in Poland, Our Lady of Czestochowa.
Today we will visit the Treasury which has historic importance, and Jasna Gora Monastery, home of the Black Madonna, to revere the icon. Celebrate the Holy Mass in the Gothic chapel of the Black Madonna which holds the famous icon. Later we continue to Wadowice, the birth place of St. Pope John Paul II and see the church where he was baptized and continue to Kalwaria Zebrzydowska to visit a monastery, a popular pilgrimage place for Pope John Paul II as a youth.
This morning we journey to Krakow’s Market Square, to see the Town Hall Tower, the Cloth Hall, and the Burgher House exhibition. We continue to the Basilica of the Virgin Mary, the Coronation Chapel, and the Royal Chambers. Later in the afternoon visit Auschwitz, the infamous German Nazi concentration camp where St. Maximillian Kolbe was killed. We will watch an audio visual presentation and pray at the cell of the St. Maximilian Kolbe, who willingly gave up his life so that another prisoner might live.
Today we journey to Lagiewniki, the home of the Divine Mercy Sanctuary where St. Faustina took her final vows as a religious and where the famous original Divine Mercy image resides. Jesus appeared to St. Faustina as the "King of Divine Mercy" and spoke to her of his desire for the image to be painted and revered, and for his message of Divine Mercy to spread throughout the whole world. We will see the tomb of St. Faustina and celebrate Holy Mass before leaving the Shrine.
This morning, on the way to Zakopane, we will stop to visit the Wieliczka Salt Mines, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. On arrival atZakopane we will take a cable car trip to the top of Mt. Kasprowy to relish breathtaking views. Visit the same Jaszczorowka Chapel that St. Pope John Paul II loved and celebrated the Holy Mass.
This morning depart Zakopane for a drive through picturesque former Yugoslavian countryside to the beautiful city, Budapest. The well-known Danube River splits the mountains of “Buda” and the plains of “Pest”, underlining an exciting comparison of past and present cultures.
After breakfast, cherish a sightseeing tour to see the several elegant bridgesthat span the Danube connecting the former cities of Buda and Pest. We will continue to visit the Royal Palace, Parliament, Castle Hill, Coronation Church and Heroes Square.
Prague, capital city of the Czech Republic, is bisected by the Vltava River. Nicknamed “the City of a Hundred Spires,” it's known for its Old Town Square, the heart of its historic core, with colorful baroque buildings, Gothic churches and the medieval Astronomical Clock, which gives an animated hourly show. Completed in 1402, pedestrian Charles Bridge is lined with statues of Catholic saints.
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