Central/Eastern Europe

You’ve arrived in Poland! Upon arrival you will meet your tour guide and board the bus.  If time allows, we will celebrate mass at the local church. We will then go to the hotel and check in. Following check-in, we will enjoy dinner and go to sleep. 

We begin the day with breakfast at the hotel.  Following breakfast, we will check out and take a tour of Warsaw. Sites include- Old Town with Barbican, Market Square, St. John’s Cathedral, Royal Castle Square, Royal Castle, Presidential Palace and St. Ann’s Church, Holy Cross Church and Now Swiat pedestrian street. 

After our tour, we will drive to Czestochowa and you will enjoy lunch on your own.  Following lunch, we will celebrate mass at one of the chapels of Jasna Gora Monastery.  We will then enjoy dinner at the hotel and go to sleep. 

We will begin the day with breakfast at the hotel and check-out. We will then visit Jasna Gora Monastery in Czestochowa (Poland’s most important pilgrimage destination). Our tour will take us through the monastery, basilica, Chapel of the Black Madonna, Contemporary Via Dolorosa, Knight’s Hall and Treasury. Following the tour, we will celebrate mass at one of the chapels of Jasna Gora Monastery. 

Following lunch on your own, we will drive to Krakow and enjoy dinner at the hotel and go to sleep.  

We begin our day with breakfast at the hotel and mass to follow.  We will then begin our tour of Krakow. 

We start at Wawel Hill to visit Wawel Cathedral. We will continue to Market Square, one of the biggest in Europe, passing by the Papal Window of Bishop’s Palace where Saint John Pall II would address his followers.  We will also see St. Mary’s Church, famous for its Wit Stwosz’s wooden altar.  

Following lunch on your own, we will transfer to Wieliczka Salt Mines, where generations of Polish miners created a world of underground salt lakes with an interior of decorated chapels, including the famous Blessed King Chapel. 

We will return to Krakow, enjoy dinner and go to sleep. 

We begin with breakfast at the hotel, with our drive to Auschwitz to follow.  There, we will tour the Nazi concentration camp where St. Teresa Benedicta faced martyrdom and St. Maximilian Kolbe died in the Death Block from starvation after volunteering his life for a that of a fellow prisoner.  

Following lunch on your own, we will drive to Lagiewniki and visit Divine Mercy Sanctuary, where we will enjoy a talk given by one of the nuns.  Mass will follow, then we will visit Have No Fear Centre dedicated to Saint John Paul II where we can pray by his relics.  

We will then return to Krakow, enjoy dinner and go to sleep.  

We begin our day with breakfast at the hotel, and check-out to follow. We then begin our journey to Prague.  

We will stop in Wadowice on the way, to visit the birthplace of John Paul II, now a museum.  We will also celebrate Mass at Church of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary, where Saint JPII was baptized.  

We then continue to Prague, and you will check in upon arrival.  Dinner will follow, and then we will go to sleep. 

We begin our day in Prague with breakfast at the hotel.  We will enjoy a full day of sightseeing, including sites like Hradcany Castle, St. Vitus Cathedral, the Royal Castle, St. George’s Basilica, and Our Lady Victorious where you see the Statue of the infant Jesus. Mass will follow. 

Following lunch on your own, we will cross the Charles Bridge to visit the Old Town, the Market Square, “Astronomical Clock”, Wenceslas Square and Josefov, the Jewish quarter.  

The rest of the day, you are free to roam the area for shopping, walking, or relaxing.  We will enjoy dinner at a local restaurant in Prague, which includes a folklore show. Then, we will return to the hotel and go to sleep.  

We will begin with breakfast at the hotel and check-out, with mass at a local church to follow.  We then make our way to Vienna, where you will enjoy lunch on your own.  

We will spend the rest of the day touring Vienna.  Sites will include the Old Town, Donner Fountain, Belwedere Palace Gardens, Hofburg Palace, Albertina, Spanish Riding School, and St. Steven Cathedral.  

Following our tour, we will enjoy dinner at the hotel and go to sleep.  

We begin with breakfast at the hotel, check-out, and a drive to Zagreb to follow.  We will stop on the way, where you can enjoy lunch on your own, and we will see Marija Bistrica, an Old Marian Shrine of the Black Madonna, where we will celebrate mass.

Upon arrival to Zagreb we will enjoy dinner at the hotel, and go to sleep.  

We will begin with breakfast at the hotel, and mass at a local church in Zagreb to follow.  

We will depart for Medjugorje, a place where it is believed that Our Lady appeared in front of a group of children in 1981.  You will enjoy lunch on your own en route, and upon arrival we will attend St. James Church evening prayer program, which includes the Rosary, Mass, and a special blessing.  We will then enjoy dinner and go to sleep.  

We begin our day with breakfast at the hotel, and a meeting with one of the Visionaries to follow.  

After we celebrate morning mass, we will embark on the walking orientation tour, where you will learn the history of the apparitions, and other various events over the last few decades.  Following lunch on your own, we will climb the Apparition Hill, and follow the same path where the 6 you visionaries first encountered Our Lady.  We will pray at the statue commemorating the spot where Our Lady first appeared.  

We will then participate in St. James Church evening prayer program, which includes the Rosary, Mass, and a special blessing.  We will then enjoy dinner at the hotel and go to sleep.  

We begin with breakfast at the hotel, then we depart for Apparition, where we have the possibility to attend on eco the monthly apparitions, and hear a talk from one of the six visionaries.  We also have the opportunity to witness Mirjana Apparitions.  

Following lunch on your own, we will climb the Cross Mountain where in 1933, on the anniversary of Jesus’ crucifixion, the villagers of Medjugorje erected a 29-foot cross in which resides a relic from the True Cross.  We will mark on a 2-3 hour hike up the mountain, and pray the Stations of the Cross along the way.  

We will then attend St. James Church evening prayer program. We will end with dinner at the hotel, and go to sleep.  

We begin with breakfast at the hotel, check-out, and morning mass at St. James Church.  

We then drive to Zagreb, where we enjoy over 900 years of history.  Sites include Old Town, St. Steven’s Cathedral, Grades, the chapel of “Mother of God at the Stone Gate”, and St. Mark’s Square.  

We then enjoy dinner at the hotel, and go to sleep. 

We end our trip with breakfast at the hotel and check-out.  Then we board the bus and transfer to Zagreb International Airport.