Pilgrimage to Italy to attend Blessed Carlo Acutis canonization Mass on Divine Mercy Sunday, April 27
11 days/ 9 nights (6 days/ 5 nights option available (only Rome, April 22 to 28)
April 22 (Tues) – afternoon departure from Seattle, dinner on airplane.
April 23 (Wed) – breakfast on airplane. Afternoon arrival in Rome. We may stop at the Papal Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls for Mass prior to our hotel check-in. Overnight Rome (D)
April 24 (Thurs) – We will sleep in a bit to help avoid jet lag. After breakfast, all day at the Vatican. The Museum in the morning (with tour guide) and St. Peter’s Basilica. Overnight Rome (B,D)
April 25 (Fri) – After breakfast, we will visit the Papal Basilicas of St. John Lateran and St. Mary Major, the Holy Steps, the churches of the Holy Cross and St. Peter’s chains and Mass in the Catacombs (with tour guide). Overnight Rome (B,D)
April 26 (Sat) – After breakfast, we will do a walking tour of Ancient Rome. From the Castello, Ponte Sant’Angelo, Piazza Navona, the tomb of St. Monica (if any interest), Pantheon, the tombs of St. Catherine of Siena and Fra Angelico (painted famous fresco of the Annuncation in Florence), Trevi Fountain. Also St. Ignatius & Gesu churches if people aren’t burned out. The Coliseum and Roman Forum (with guide). Overnight Rome (B,D)
April 27 (Sun) – Blessed Carlo’s Canonization Mass in St. Peter’s Square. We will have to get up very early today. I will attempt to get the hotel to give us a boxed breakfast we can eat while waiting in St. Peter’s Square. Overnight Rome (B,D)
April 28 (Mon) – After breakfast, depart for San Giovanni (St. Pio is incorrupt). We will take a motorcoach to the Adriatic side the country, stopping in Manoppello (Holy Face of Jesus shrine). Possible Mass here. We will arrive in the afternoon at San Giovanni. Check-in to our hotel, then we will walk to the 3 churches. ll have time to pray at St. Pio’s incorrupt body and visit the church gift shop. You will also have time to do the outside stations of the cross near St. Pio’s church. Overnight San Giovanni (B,D)
April 29 (Tues) – After breakfast, morning Mass at St. Pio’s church. In the early afternoon we will drive 30-40 minutes each way to visit the cave of St. Michael the Archangel (he appeared to a bishop in the 4th Century). Overnight San Giovanni (B,D)
April 30 (Wed) – After Breakfast, depart for Assisi. We will stop in Lanciano for Mass at the church with the 8th c. Eucharistic Miracle. Then drive further up the coast to visit Loreto (site of The Holy Family’s House). Then over the mountains to Assisi. If time prior to dinner we will visit one of the churches in Assisi under May 1. Overnight Assisi (B,D)
May 1 (Thurs) – We will visit the Basilicas of St. Francis and St. Clare. I will attempt to schedule today’s Mass at San Stefano, the church where Blessed Carlo’s reliquary is. We will visit both Basilicas of St. Francesco (Francis) and St. Chiara (Clare), with time to pray at their tombs. Also at St. Clare we will pray in front of the cross that spoke to St. Francis at the San Damiano church. We will visit the San Damiano church (a replica cross is now hung) and the Cathedral of San Rufino (baptismal font used to baptize both Francis and Clare). In the valley below we will visit St. Mary of the Angels, where St. Francis lived with his religious brothers and where St. Francis died. Overnight Assisi (B,D)
May 2 (Fri) – Morning departure for airport for early afternoon flight to Seattle.
Land Only pricing for 9 nights in Italy, based upon double occupancy. Includes transportation, lodging, breakfasts and dinners, Entrance fees with tour guides to Vatican Museum, the Catacombs and the Roman Coliseum, cost of the priest, ALL tips (restaurants, tour guides and driver). Paul will be your tour escort.
Does not include lunches or other museums/sites one does on their own.
If 14 people paying = ~$4,300 per person
20 paying = ~$3,800 per person
(Single Supplement or Triple/Quad discount available)
Current Airfare pricing $1,000 to $1,200. ($150 to $200 less if only bringing a carry-on bag). Warning regarding carry-on bags, Many European carriers only
allow a 8 kg carry-on (17.6 lbs) and they are know to weigh some of them. Checked bag is for up to 23 kg (50.6 lbs).
$200 deposit secures a spot. If we do not get enough people you will get a full refund on your deposit. We still need a few more people to make this pilgrimage happen.
Payments with credit card will incur a 4% fee.
