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15 NIGHTSMexican
Pilgrimage 2020
15 Nights / 16 Days Guadalajara (4) • San Juan de Los Lagos (1) • Sahuayo (1) • Pátzcuaro (2) • San Miguel de Allende (2) • Mexico City (5)
DEPARTS: WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2020
Accompanied by BISHOP GEOFFREY JARRETT
Join us in the Colonial Heartland as we journey from Guadalajara to Mexico City including the Marian Shrines of Guadalupe, Zapopan and San Juan de los Lagos and places of the Martyrs of the Cristero War, 1927-1930.
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AIRFARES Return Economy Class airfare from Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane • (N.B. Airlines taxes are included on standard itinerary and subject to fluctuations).ACCOMMODATION & MEALS Based on Superior Standard / 4-Star accommodation • Meals – 15 Dinners / 15 Full BreakfastsTOURING & TRANSPORTATION Deluxe Air Conditioned Coach with driver • fully escorted by Bishop Jarrett as your spiritual chaplain along with local tour co Coordinator and local guides • Sightseeing and Entrance Fees throughout itinerary • Porterage at hotels • Harvest Backpack, Pilgrims Journal and Tour WalletNOT INCLUDED Passport and visa costs • Tipping • Other meals not stated • Items of a personal nature • Travel Insurance
MEXICO
Guadalajara
San Juan de los Lagos
Cholula
SahuayoZamora
Pátzcuaro
San Miguel de AllendeZapopan
Xochimilco
Teotihuacán
Puebla
GuadalupeMexico City
INDICATIVE PRICING
TOUR CODE DEPART RETURN
PV9220 Wed 22 Apr 9 May
AIR & TOUR $6,590 Twin Share
SINGLE ROOM $1,100
PREPAID TIPPING $320 per person
Plaza de Armas and Cathedral, Guadalajara
* Prices are based on a minimum group size of 15 paying pilgrims, calculated as at August 2019. Prices remain subject to possible changes in the unlikely event of significant exchange rate variations, airfare increases or minimum group size contingencies.
St José Sánchez del Río 1913-1928
DAY 7: TUESDAY 28 APRIL – SAHUAYO – ZAMORA – PÁTZCUARO (BD)Private transfer from Sahuayo to Pátzcuaro, via Zamora. In Zamora we shall visit the neo-Gothic Sanctuary of Our Lady of Guadalupe for the celebration of Mass.Arriving in the lakeside town of Pátzcuaro, famous for its indigenous crafts, we can enjoy an afternoon at leisure.
Overnight in Pátzcuaro
DAY 8: WEDNESDAY 29 APRIL – PÁTZCUARO (BD)A full day tour in Michoacán state: • Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Salud, where
we will celebrate Mass at the tomb of the saintly bishop Vasco de Quiroga (1488-1565)
• Biblioteca Gertrudis Bocanegra with its dramatic historical mural by Juan O’Gorman (1942)
• A boat trip across Lake Pátzcuaro to the Isla Janitzio; to the Tarascan archaeological site at Tzintzuntzán
Overnight in Patzcuaro
DAY 9: THURSDAY 30 APRIL – PÁTZCUARO – SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE (BD)Transfer from Pátzcuaro to the enchanting colonial town of San Miguel de Allende, a World Heritage site. On the way we call at the Santuario de Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco; enjoy the afternoon roaming the cobblestone streets, discovering the town’s fine colonial architecture.
Overnight in San Miguel de Allende
DAY 10: FRIDAY 1 MAY – SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE (BD)Walking tour around the town including:• La Parroquia, with its curious neo-Gothic
additions, where we will celebrate Mass;• Templo de la Concepción, of San Francisco
(B) = Breakfast (L) = Lunch (D) = Dinner
DAY 1: WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2020 – AUSTRALIA TO GUADALAJARA (D)• Depart Australia and arrive into Guadalajara,
Mexico’s second largest city, 580km west of the capital
• Private transfer to our centrally located hotel
Overnight in Guadalajara
DAY 2: THURSDAY 23 APRIL – GUADALAJARA (BD)Walking tour visiting:• Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, rising
above the central Plaza de Armas• Palacio de Gobierno, the seat of the
government of Jalisco state, with its striking murals by José Clemente Orozco
• Instituto Cultural Cabañas in Plaza Tapatía, one of Mexico’s finest neo-classical buildings
• Neo-Gothic Templo Expiatorio (of the Blessed Sacrament) for the celebration of Mass
• Neo-classical Templo de Nuestra Señora del Carmen
Overnight in Guadalajara
DAY 3: FRIDAY 24 APRIL – GUADALAJARA (BD)Walking tour visiting:• Templo de San Francisco, one of the
earliest churches in the city and the nearby Capilla de Aranzazú, with its three Churriguesresque altars
• Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Guadalajara’s shrine to the national patroness, for the Celebration of Mass
• Museum of the Cristero Martyrs, commemorating those who fell in the people’s war against the secularist, anti-Catholic policies of the Mexican government during the Cristero uprising of 1926–29
• Templo de San Felipe Neri with its beautiful Plateresque façade
• Baroque Templo de Santa Monica
Overnight in Guadalajara
DAY 4: SATURDAY 25 APRIL – GUADALAJARA (BD)Zapopan is Mexico’s second largest pilgrimage destination, where we shall celebrate Mass before the small but greatly venerated statue of Our Lady of Zapopan, dating to the first evangelisation of the region by the Franciscan friars. Tlaquepaque is also now another suburb of Guadalajara, which we shall visit for its distinctive ceramics and craft workshops.
Overnight in Guadalajara
DAY 5: SUNDAY 26 APRIL– GUADALAJARA – SAN JUAN DE LOS LAGOS (BD)An enjoyable full day touring the Jalisco state countryside, widely cultivated with blue agave for the distillation of tequila. We visit:• Tepatitlán: the martyrdom tree of San
Tranquilino Ubiaco, and his relics in the church of San Francisco;
• Templo de Nuestro Señor de Misericordia and the Cristero Museum in Tepatitlán;
• The town of Santa Ana de Guadalupe, the birthplace of Santo Toribio Romo, the church of his first Mass and the relics of martyrdom in 1928 and where we will celebrate Mass;
• On to the city of San Juan de los Lagos, whose Cathedral Basilica contains Mexico’s third largest shrine of the Blessed Virgin.
Overnight San Juan de Los Lagos
DAY 6: MONDAY 27 APRIL – SAN JUAN DE LOS LAGOS – SAHUAYO (BD)Private transfer this morning to Sahuayo, Michoacán state. In Sahuayo we visit the Parroquia de Santiago Apóstol, the place of martyrdom in 1928 of 15-year-old San José Sánchez del Río, where we will celebrate Mass.
Overnight in Sahuayo
and Nuestra Señora de la Salud;• Casa Allende, former family home of
Ignacio Allende, a hero in the struggle for independence from Spain
Overnight in San Miguel de Allende.
DAY 11: SATURDAY 2 MAY – SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE – TEOTIHUACAN – MEXICO CITY (BD)This morning we take a private transfer to Mexico City. On the way we shall enjoy lunch and spend the afternoon visiting the spectacular archaeological site of Teotihuacán with its two huge pyramids, Avenue of the Dead and murals.Overnight in Mexico City
DAY 12: SUNDAY 3 MAY – MEXICO CITY (BD) Enjoy a walking tour today visiting: • Zócalo: the Catedral Metropolitana; the
Aztec Templo Mayor archaeological site• Palacio Nacional -– the seat of government
since the days of the Aztec empire• Templo de la Enseñanza, with its dazzling
gold retablo, to celebrate Mass• Iglesia de San Francisco de Asis, all that now
remains of the site of Mexico’s earliest church
Overnight in Mexico City
DAY 13: MONDAY 4 MAY – MEXICO CITY (BD)Full day tour visiting: • Museo Nacional de Antropología, the
renowned collection of finds from Mexico’s pre-Columbian cultures, particularly the Aztecs, Mayans and Zapotecs
• Chapultepec Castle with stunning views over the park and city below, once the residence of the Emperor Maximilian and later presidents
• Parroquia de la Sagrada Familia: we will celebrate Mass at the shrine of the Blessed Miguel Pro, SJ, martyr 1927
Overnight in Mexico City
DAY 14: TUESDAY 5 MAY– PUEBLA – CHOLULA (BD)
Full day tour in private transport visiting Puebla, the city of the famous Talavera ceramic tiles• Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception,
dedicated in 1649, with an octagonal baldacchino
• Iglesia de Santo Domingo and its magnificent baroque Chapel of the Rosary;
• Casa del Alfeñique museum, a renovated colonial house and an outstanding example of the 18th-century decorative style
• Great Pyramid of Cholula archaeological site, surmounted by the 16th century church of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios, with the snowcapped Popocatépetl volcano behind
Overnight in Mexico City
DAY 15: WEDNESDAY 6 MAY – MEXICO CITY – GUADALUPE AND XOCHIMILCO (BD)
The climax of our pilgrimage, the great shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe on the outskirts of Mexico City, which receives twelve million pilgrims each year. We will join a huge congregation for the day’s Mass at the altar before the miraculous image of 1531.Later we shall visit the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, so named because it symbolizes the fusion of pre-Hispanic and Spanish roots into the Mexican mestizo identity. In the afternoon we continue to the Xochimilco floating gardens, punting for three hours through the canals in our own colourful trajinera.
Overnight in Mexico City
DAY 16: THURSDAY 7 MAY – DEPART MEXICO CITY (B)
Private airport transfer for homebound flights.
The original Image of the Blessed Virgin, Guadalupe
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