Let’s Travel, Let’s get Spiritual!!
September 25 – October 3, 2025
Ave Maria Pilgrimage presents trip Led by: BISHOP FRANCIS ADESINA
To: LOURDES, TOULOUSE and BORDEAUX
From LOS ANGELES $3,780. NEW YORK, HOUSTON or DALLAS: $3,650
per person/double occupancy (All Taxes Included)
Single Room Occupancy: 580.00 Extra **Please call for departure from your city
For best air options and hotel accommodations please book early
Your Trip Includes all admission fees and taxes:
- All air and ground transportation
- All 4-Star hotels
- 3 nights stay in Lourdes
- 2 nights in Toulouse – City of Thomas Aquinas burial.
famous for its many museums and historical religious buildings.
- 2 nights in Bordeaux – City of Art, history and
- Daily Celebration of the Holy Mass
- Breakfast and dinner daily
- Assistance of Tour Director
- Sightseeing Tours
NOT INCLUDED: Daily Lunch. Beverages with dinner and Tips ($80 per pilgrim) for Drivers, Servers and Housekeeping staff.
YOUR DAILY ITINERARY
Day 1: Depart for U.S.A for Lourdes, France
Day 2: Upon arrival in Lourdes, our tour director will welcome us, and our private bus will transport us to our hotel. We will be staying in the town of Lourdes for three nights. Optional every evening at 9:00pm, we can join the nightly Rosary, singing, and a Candlelight Procession which was requested by the Blessed Mother.
Day 3: After a good night’s rest, and breakfast, our tour guide will show us the entire Lourdes Shrine. Included is the Basilica of St. Pius X, the beautiful Grotto, where the Blessed Mother introduced herself to Bernadette as the Immaculate Conception, and where she made the spring of healing water flow. You will have an opportunity to wash your face and drink the healing water of this Miraculous Spring. We will celebrate our private Mass in the St. Joan of Arc Chapel, and also visit the Holy Relic of St. Bernadette. Free time until 5:00 p.m. Procession of the Blessed Sacrament. Starts in Grotto to St. Pius X Basilica.
Day 4: After breakfast, there will be time to immerse yourself in the healing waters of the Grotto, as well as time for prayer and exploring. Mass will follow. In the afternoon we will take a tour of Boly Mill where St. Bernadette was born, and walk through her life’s events, including the Church where she was baptized.
Day 5: After breakfast we depart our hotel and drive 2.5 hours, to Bordeaux City of Art and history with most listed monuments (after Paris) in France. Some dating back to Romans times. After stopping for lunch, we will arrive in the afternoon and check in to our hotel. Free time to explore beautiful surrounding areas before dinner.
Day 6: After breakfast we will depart for 1 hour excursion to town of Verdelais, where we will visit the miraculous polychrome wooden statue of Our Lady of Verdelais. After touring the Basilica, we will celebrate our private Mass. After lunch will return to Bordeaux. For 1 hour guided City tour. Free time before returning to the hotel.
Day 7: After breakfast and Holy Mass, we will depart Bordeaux for 3-hour drive to Toulouse (fourth largest city in France). After stopping for lunch we will visit, Jacobins Basilica the burial site of St. Thomas Aquinas and the chapel where Our Lady appeared to St. Dominick, gave him Rosary and 15 promises for those who will pray it. After visit we will check-in to our hotel for dinner and two-night stay.
Day 8: This morning, after breakfast we will drive to Basilica of St. Sernin (Among the largest preserved Romanesque churches in Europe.) at the Basilica we will celebrate our private mass. Have free time to view some of the 128 relics of the Saints housed in the crypts, where it includes a Thorn that used to belong to the “Crown of Thorns” Jesus wore during his crucifixion.
Afternoon we will have a guided tour of magnificent City of Toulouse along the river Garonne. Back to our hotel for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 9: Depart Toulouse airport; heading to your Hometown, USA Have a blessed trip home!!!
**If you wish to extend your trip to another city in Europe, please call us or email us to make arrangements.
AVE MARIA PILGRIMAGE shall not become liable for any injury, damage, loss, accident, delay, change in itinerary or accommodations, inconvenience, or other irregularity which may be occasioned either by reason of (1) wrongful, negligent or arbitrary acts or omissions on the part of the suppliers or their employees, land operators, airlines, or others not under the direct control of AVE MARIA PILGRIMAGE; (2) defects or failures of any conveyance, equipment or instrumentality under the control of the airlines, land operators, bus companies, etc.; or (3) through acts of default of any company or person engaged in conveying the passenger, or in carrying out the arrangements of the tour, or otherwise in connection therewith, or of any hotel proprietor or servant, and (4) but not limited to criminal acts by third parties, fire, civil disturbances, act of God, acts of governments and other authorities, wars, riots, strikes, thefts, pilferage, epidemics, quarantines, dangers incident to the sea, land and air. All such losses will have to be incurred by the client. We recommend you contact the travel insurance company of your choice or: www.insuremytrip.com via their website or call them at 1-800-487-4722.