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 Rome
Pilgrimage Itinerary
This schedule is designed to give our group a good taste of some key cities for Catholics in Italy, with a concentration on Rome. Our first five days are in Rome, where we provide great tours with fabulous tour guides (great for first time visitors to Rome). For veteran travelers of Rome, these first five days can be yours to do what you want or break off into smaller groups. We do have one formal scheduled free day in Rome as well. Then, as a group, we spend the rest of the trip on bus tour of three major Italian cities; Assisi, Florence and Siena. Daily Mass will be available.
Friday, October 16
Travel day
Saturday, October
17
Everyone arrives from their prospective cities to Rome. Transportation provided at designated times. Settle into your quarters. Spend the day in resting or in free time or optional afternoon tours:
 Santa Croce in Gerusalemme--The Basilica of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem
This Basilica is one of the most sacred places of the capitol of Christianity. It was probably Constantine who, around 320, ordered the transformation of the Palazzo Sessoriano into the place where the relics collected by his mother, St Helena, during her trip to the Holy Land could be preserved. Here are kept soil from the Holy Sepulchre, fragments of the Holy Cross , two thorns from the Crown, the crosspiece from the cross of the penitent robber who was crucified beside Christ and many other venerated objects. It is one of the seven churches which are jubilee destinations during the Holy Years.
San Giovanni in Laterano -- The Basilica of St. John Lateran
St. John in Lateran is the Cathedral of Rome, one of the four major basilicas and the mother of all churches in Rome and in the world. Founded by Constantine, during the time of Silvester (314-335) it has been destroyed and rebuilt many times. The current basilica dates from the 17th century. This area once belonged to the Laterani family, and was presented to the Church by the Emperor Constantine.
St. Mary Major
Sunday, October 18
Morning: Visit San Pietro and Partecipate in the Angelus under the Popes window.
San Pietro en Vaticano -- The Basilica of St. Peter
St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican is the largest church in the world, and one of the most beautiful. The ground upon which St. Peter's Basilica stands was once a chariot racing stadium, constructed during the reigns of the Emperors Caligula, Claudius and Nero, in the years 40-65.
Afternoon:
Visit San Paolo fuori le Mura e Abbey delle Tre Fontane
Monday, October 19
Morning tours:
 Catacombs of St. Calixtus
The catacomb is actually three separate burial chambers that were joined to create a single network. It was opened in the early 3rd century, as the principal Christian cemetery in Rome, and is named after the Deacon Callixtus, to whom Pope Zephyrinus (199-217) gave the responsibility for the catacombs. St. Cecilia was originally interred here.
Basilica of St. Sebastian
The Basilica of St. Sebastian, outside of Rome, along the Appian Way, is one of the most ancient and venerated of Rome's pilgrimage sites. A chapel on the left of the church marks the place where Sebastian, one of the early soldier saints, was buried in the catacombs below.
The tour will be followed by Vigil Mass and a tour of the:
Catacombs of St. Sebastian
The afternoon tours:
St. Clement
St. Peter in Vincoli
The Colosseum
Tuesday, October 20
Morning:
Piazza del Popolo
 Santa Maria del Popolo
Piazza Spagna
Fontana di Trevi
The Pantheon
The afternoon tours will include:
Chiesa del Gesù
Chiesa di sant'Ignazio
Piazza Navona
Campo dei fiori
Piazza Farnese
Wednesday, October 21
Wednesday morning is a high point of the trip:
General Audience with Pope Benedict XVI
FREE AFTERNOON
Depart for Assisi in the Evening
Thursday, October 22 - ASSISI
Morning in Assisi:
Santa Maria degli Angeli
The Porciuncola
San Francesco
 Afternoon in Assisi:
Santa Chiara and San Damiano
Evening: Departure to Siena
Friday, October 23 - SIENA
Morning:
Chiesa di Santo Domenico
Casa di Santa Caterina
Duomo (Cathedral)
Afternoon:
Piazza centrale
Basilica di San Francesco, Eucharistic Miracle
Evening: Departure to Florence.
Saturday, October 24 – FLORENCE
Morning:
Cattedrale Santa Maria del Fiore
Galleria degli Uffizi
Ponte Vecchio
Afternoon:
 Accademia
Free Time
Sunday, October 25 - ROME
Departure for Rome
Free day in Rome
Mass at San Paolo alla Regola
Monday, October 26
Shuttles to the airport and departure
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