Paris • Chartres • Caen • Normandy • Mont Saint-Michel • Lisieux • Ars • Lourdes
12 days- Our prices include airfare from your hometown and exclusively 4 or 5 star hotels everywhere
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Trip Includes
- Fr. Paul will be with the group to celebrate Mass. Daily Mass is available.
- Round-trip airfare from your hometown connecting in a major city to fly overseas is included.
- Airport Taxes, Security Fees and Fuel Surcharges!
- Exclusively 4 or 5 star hotels in downtown areas.
- All breakfasts and all dinners. Wine is included with all dinners.
- Transportation with luxury bus.
- All entrance fees to all the sites.
- All tips to everyone involved in the tour.
- The tour fees for our guides. Our tour guides are well educated, caring, and professional. Most of them have their PhD's in Church history, archeology, philosophy, languages, or Theology.
- Luggage handling. Please pack light, one piece of luggage and one carry-on.
- If you are traveling alone and you allow us to find you a roommate, you don't have to pay the $900 single supplement. If you wish to have your own room and you are not open to the idea of rooming with another passenger, then $900 is what you pay for single supplement fee.
- Dress casually all throughout the trip. Shoulders and knees should be covered when visiting Basilicas or churches.
- Taxi and wheelchair is provided gratis for those passengers who cannot walk. But a traveling companion has to push the wheelchair throughout the trip.
- At the time of registration, as a part of the total balance, a non-refundable $500 ($500 hotel and airfare deposit) is due in the form of a check. For example, if your trip costs $3,700, when you sign up and you pay the $500 deposit, your balance would be $3,200 and is due 4 months before departure date. If you sign up after the final payment due date or a the last minute, you must overnight the entire cost of the trip immediately.
Trip Does Not Include
- Lunch
- Insurance ~ The total trip cost is non-refundable, so we recommend trip insurance to protect your investment.
Trip Itinerary
Day 1: We depart our home airport and connect with our overnight flight to Paris, complimentary dinner and breakfast, on board.
Day 2: We arrive in Paris. Our guide meets us and we take our private motor coach to the Chapel of our Lady of the Miraculous Medal at 140 Rue du Bac where St. Catherine Laboure received apparitions of the Blessed Mother and the request for a medal to be made. We celebrate Mass, visit the tomb of St. Catherine Laboure with a stop at the gift shop and around the corner the repose of St. Louise de Marilac and the shrine of St. Vincent de Paul We make our way along the Champs Elysses, see the Eiffel Tower, the classic sites of the Hotel des Invalides and Arc de Triomphe before checking into our hotel. Following dinner, we will join Father Bob on an evening walk. Overnight in Paris.
Day 3: We depart for an outside walk at the most famous cathedral in the world devoted to the Blessed Mother, Notre Dame. Repairs from the 2019 fire are still being made to the inside. Staying on the Ile de la Cite, we tour the royal chapel of Louis IX, Sainte Chapell, one of the most beautiful churches with its extraordinary stained glass windows. We continue to the Basilica of St. Denis where the namesake of St. Louis, Missouri, Louis IX, is buried. Mass at St. Denis and enjoy a dinner cruise on the Seine River. Overnight in Paris.
Day 4: We begin with a visit to the shrine dedicated to Saint Genevieve, patron saint of Paris at the Saint Etienne du Mont Church where we will have Mass. The church also has the tombs of Blaise Pascal, Jean Racine and Jean-Paul Murat. Then visit the artist community on Montmarte, see a spectacular view of the city and tour the Basilica of Sacre Coeur (Sacred Heart), the second most visited site after the Eiffel Tower. Visit the artist community on Montmarte, see a spectacular view of the city and tour the Basilica of Sacre Coeur (Sacred Heart). The motor coach will return to the hotel and those wishing to stay can explore the nearby artist's quarters of Montmartre and return to the hotel on their own. Dinner and overnight in Paris.
Day 5: We leave Paris for the second most visited pilgrimage site in France, the home of the Little Flower of Jesus, St. Therese, Doctor of the Church. An inspiration of her “little way,” we begin at Les Buissonnets (the Lisieux family home), then proceed to the Basilica, the Carmelite Convent Chapel, the reliquary of St. Therese, and the statue of the Virgin Mary that smiled at St. Therese. Mass is in Lisieux and overnight in Caen.
Day 6: We make our way to the historic D-Day sites and tour the area remembering those who bravely stormed the beaches, gave their lives and are still heroes in that conflict. Visit Mont-St. Michel, an island off the Normandy coast. We pass medieval walls to enter the Benedictine Abbey that towers over the island joining the monks for Mass. We tour the Abbey and the tour guide will help you explore this charming town. Dinner and overnight in Mont St. Michel.
Day 7: Saying goodbye to the Normandy coast, we travel inland to another site of pilgrimages since the Middle Ages, Chartres. Known for the most magnificent display of stained glass in the entire world, Our Lady of Chartres Cathedral also has a relic, the Sancta Camisa, said to be the tunic worn by the Virgin Mary at Christ's birth and a labyrinth on the center of the floor. Mass will be celebrated in one of the churches in the area. Dinner and overnight in Chartres.
Day 8: Drive to Ars. Visit the shrine of St. John Vianney. Dinner and overnight in the area.
Day 9: Drive to Toulouse and tour of Toulouse. Dinner and overnight in Toulouse.
Day 10: Drive to Lourdes. Check-in Hotel. Free afternoon in the beautiful Shrine of Lourdes located in the Pyrenees Mountains. Overnight in Lourdes.
Day 11: Lourdes for the whole day. Mass in Lourdes. This pilgrimage was designed for those who would like to spend more time in Lourdes, to pray and reflect. You will have time to pray with your fellow pilgrims and pilgrims from around the world, to attend Mass at the Grotto, watch a video presentation telling the story of Lourdes, and walk in the footsteps of St. Bernadette. Dinner and overnight in Lourdes.
Day 12: Fly home from Toulouse.
Please note: We do our best to ensure that all sites listed in this itinerary will be seen. However, due to scheduling conflicts, or other circumstances beyond our control, sites may be visited on a different day than listed. If this happens it will also necessitate a change in the restaurant for dinner. However, we will never sacrifice the quality of the meal, all restaurants will meet Pro Catholic Tours high standards. Since we have several different trip configurations touring at the same time, it is likely that groups on different tours will be combined when their itineraries overlap in certain areas.