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Including Paris, Lourdes,
Avignon, Ars, Nevers, Paray le Monial, Burgos (Spain), Santarem (Portugal),
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This pilgrimage is being made in connection with Bishop Fellay’s Act of Reparation to Our Lady
of Fatima.
Friday, August 19, 2005
We depart in the evening on our transatlantic flight to Paris; dinner and breakfast served during flight.
Saturday, August 20
We arrive in Paris and connect for our flight to Lisbon (Portugal), arriving mid-morning in Lisbon where our bus driver will meet us. On our way to Fatima, we stop at Santarem to venerate the Eucharistic Miracle. We arrive at Fatima in time for a late lunch. In the afternoon we visit the site of the apparitions and in the evening we join the thousands of pilgrims from all over the world in the candlelight procession.
Sunday, August 21
In the morning we join the other SSPX groups from around the world in making the Act of Reparation in Fatima with Bishop Fellay. Events consist of Pontifical High Mass, procession to the shrine and the Act of Reparation.
Monday, August 22
In the morning we participate in the SSPX’s activities in Fatima, which includes making the Act of Reparation again. In the afternoon there is a guided visit of the village.
Tuesday, August 23
In the morning we depart Fatima for Burgos (Spain), with its magnificent, limestone cathedral where El Cid is buried.
Wednesday, August 24
Early departure from Burgos for Lourdes (France). Lunch in Lourdes. Afternoon consists of free time for devotions at the grotto or for taking baths. We join the 5:00pm procession of the Blessed Sacrament and Blessing of the Sick devotions (the last recorded miracle took place during these devotions). At night we join in the candlelight Rosary Procession requested by Our Lady herself,
“I want people to come here in procession and pray the rosary...”.
Thursday, August 25
In the morning free time is given for private devotions, baths, etc... In the afternoon we will have a guided tour of the town with the places related to St. Bernadette, such as the
Cachot, the mill, her paternal home and more. In the evening, we join the candlelight procession again.
Friday, August 26
Leave Lourdes after breakfast for Avignon (France) to visit the Popes’ Palace, the largest gothic palace in Europe,
and residence to nine popes, the most famous of whom where Popes Benedict XII and Clement VI.
Saturday, August 27
We leave Avignon for Vinay, where took place a very little known apparition. There Our Lady appeared in March 1657 to a Protestant, Mr. Pierre Port Combet, who was married to a Catholic wife. While working on Sunday, March 25, a willow tree started to bleed, Our Lady then appeared to him, and afterwards he fell sick. During the night he proclaimed his adhesion to the Catholic Church and converted. He died on August 15, 1657.
We continue on to Ars, the town of the Holy Cure, St. John Vianney. We visit his basilica that contains his incorrupt body, confessional, and the rectory where we will see the bed that the devil set on fire and more...
Sunday, August 28
We visit Paray Le Monial where Our Lord revealed His Sacred Heart to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque. This is the origin of devotion to the Sacred Heart and the nine First Fridays. We will visit the convent where the apparition took place, which is also the resting place of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque. We then continue on to the convent where St. Bernadette lies incorrupt in Nevers.
Monday, August 29
We visit the Chapel of the Miraculous Medal on Rue du Bac, which contains the incorrupt bodies of Sts. Catherine Laboure, and Louise Marillac. Afterwards, we cross the
street (!) to venerate the incorrupt body of St. Vincent de Paul in his namesake church; unfortunately, many a tourist is unaware of that his body is kept here. We then visit Notre Dame Cathedral and many other sacred places in Paris.
Tuesday, August 30
In the early morning we board our return flight to the United States filled with spiritual graces, memories and new-found friends.
Arrive in New York at 10:30am.
Bon Voyage!
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