Day 1: USA - LISBON.

Depart for our overnight in flight to Lisbon, Portugal. We are served dinner and breakfast aloft.

Day 2: LISBON.

Upon arrival, we will meet with the guide and the driver  to transfer to  our hotel. Check in and  start  our  pilgrimage in  the  birthplace of St. Anthony.  We visit  the Monastery Dos Jeronimos, the Belem tower. Return to our hotel for dinner and overnight

Day 3: LISBON - FATIMA.

Today after breakfast,  we will complete our visits of Lisbon with Placa dos Rossios and Placa dos Restauradores. We will continue with the Cathedral of Lisbon, the Church of Nossa Senora de Conceicao Velha and the Church of St. Anthony where we will have the Holy Mass. We will  pass  by Avenida  de  Liberdade and we enjoy a walking tour of the quarter of Alfama and the Castle of St Jose. At the end of the visit, we will continue to Fatima. Accommodation in our  hotel and time for personal prayer. Dinner, Torchlight procession and overnight.

Day 4: FATIMA

After breakfast, we will  visit of Adjustrel and Os Valinhos, the  birthplaces of Francisco, Jacinta and Lucia to whom the Virgin appeared for the first time on May 13th, 1917, the Via Crucis in Os Valinhos, up to Loca do Cabeco, place of the 4th appearance of Our Lady. This afternoon is dedicated to visiting the Basilica and Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima. Visit of The Museum of the Shrine where is conserved the crown with the bullet that wounded St. John Paul II. In the evening, we join the Rosary and candlelight procession. Dinner and overnight at our hotel. Celebrate Holy Mass.

Day 5: FATIMA-COIMBRA-SALAMANCA

This morning, after breakfast, we will leave Fatima and we will travel to Coimbra to visit St Teresa of Avila Covent. As a Discalced Carmelite Convent, this is similar to many other Carmelite convents; however, there has been one notable occupant of the convent: Sister Lucia, one of the visionaries of Fatima. The Fatima apparitions took place in 1917, and Sister Lucia moved to Porto in 1921. In 1925, she entered the Institute of the Sisters of St. Dorothy as a postulant in the convent in Tui, Spain, just across the northern Portuguese border. In 1948

she entered the Carmelite convent in Coimbra and took her vows on May 31, 1949, taking the religious name Sister Maria Lúcia of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart. As a cloistered nun, she had little contact with the outside world (perhaps her most famous visitor was Pope John Paul II). She lived here until her death in 2005.   We visit of the ancient University and the Library. After the visit, we depart to Salamanca. Arrival in the evening, accommodation in our hotel, dinner and overnight. Celebrate Holy Mass.

Day 6: SALAMANCA-BURGOS

After breakfast, we have a guided tour of Salamanca. As the first Spanish city to found a university, Salamanca is filled with students especially in the historic district. The past is visible in the Old Cathedral, the huge Plaza Mayor and the Monterrey Palace, all splendid buildings that rightfully earned the city a place on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list in 1988. Celebrate Holy Mass. At the end of the Visits transfer to Burgos. Accommodation in our hotel, dinner and overnight.

Day 7: BURGOS-GARABANDAL

After breakfast, we visit. Burgos, the capital city of the unified kingdom of Castile and Leon for five centuries. Its Cathedralboasts one of the masterpieces of Spanish Gothic style and is declared a World Heritage Site. Built on a Romanesque canvas, the current building followed the Franco-Norman Gothic style. The filigrees on the tower spiers and the exterior volume of the Chapel of El Condestable are some of its masterpieces. Inside, this beauty and creative genius is complemented by a long list of exceptional works: the starry dome that covers the tombs of El Cid and Doña Jimena, the choir, the tombs, and the Golden Staircase by the Burgos architect and sculptor Diego de Siloé, one of the most representative figures of the Spanish Renaissance. The historic center of Burgos ends with two important buildings: to the west rises the Monastery of Santa María Real de las Huelgas, and its remarkable Gothic cloister and chapel of the Apostle Santiago. Nearby, the Museo de Ricas Telas showcases, for example, the historic banners seized from the Arabs in the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (year 1212). To the east, in Cartuja de Miraflores you can find an impressive polychrome altarpiece, and other art works. According to tradition, it was gilded with the first gold brought to Spain after the discovery of America. At the end of the visits travel to San Sebastian of Garbandal, dinner and overnight. Celebrate Holy Mass.

Day 8: GARABANDAL-SAN SEBASTIAN

After breakfast, start your day visiting Garabandal. In June 18, 1961 four children had an apparition first of an Angel, sent to prepare the children for a visit from the Virgin. From July 2, 1961 sporadically until Nov 13, 1965, the Blessed Virgin visited them, speaking, guiding and confiding secrets of future events. The children reported a promised future miracle at the grove of pine trees on a bluff overlooking the village of Garabandal. It will be on the feast-day of a little known martyr of the Eucharist and coincide with an event in the Church. In the afternoon, transfer to San Sebastian. Accommodation in our hotel, dinner and overnight. Celebrate Holy Mass.

Day 9: SAN SEBASTIAN/LOYOLA/LOURDES

After breakfast, we will drive to Loyola to visit and celebrate Holy Mass at the Monastery of St. Ignatius. At the end of the visit transfer to Lourdes. Upon arrival accommodation in our hotel and time for personal devotion. Dinner in hotel. Rosary and candlelight procession. Overnight.

Day 10: LOURDES

After breakfast, visit of the Grotto to celebrate Holy Mass. Time for lunch. In the afternoon, we will have a walking tour which takes us to Boly Mill (the birthplace of St. Bernadette), the Cachot (the former jail, where she lived during the apparitions) and the local parish Church. Dinner in hotel. Rosary and candlelight procession. Overnight.

Day 11: LOURDES

Breakfast in Hotel, We will celebrate Holy Mass. Free day -time for personal devotion or partake in the healings baths or stations of the cross. Dinner in hotel.  Rosary and candlelight procession. Overnight.

DAY 12: LOURDES/TOLOUSE/USA

Transfer to the airport for our return flight home to the USA with wonderful memories of our pilgrimage in our mind and renewed faith in our hearts.