YOUR TRIP INCLUDES:
- Round-trip air from Miami
- Airline FUEL SURCHARGES INCLUDED (up to $330)
- 11 nights in hotel (www.hotelplazasucre.com with private baths)
- Two meals a day (normally Breakfast and Dinner)
- Wine or beer with dinners
- Assistance of a professional local Catholic guide(s)
- Transfers as per itinerary
- Sightseeing and admissions fees as per itinerary
- Catholic Priest available for Spiritual Direction
- Daily Mass in a Traditional Rite & Spiritual activities
- All ground transportation during itinerary hours.
- Luggage handling (1 piece per person)
Not Included: Airport taxes (approx. $150, subject to change), one meal a day. Travel Insurance, Tips to your guide & driver ($2-5 per day). Incidental expenses at hotels.
Major Shrines and locations visited: Nuestra Señora del Buen Suceso, Venerable Madre Mariana de Jesús Torres, Santa Mariana de Jesús Flores, La Dolorosa, Garcia Moreno, San. Hermano Miguel.
Pilgrimage Itinerary
Day 1 January 24 Depart from your airport of origin/Quito
Board your overnight transatlantic flights from your home town. Meals are served on board. Upon arrival in Quito, you'll be greeted by a tour guide and/or driver who will then check you into your hotel. Guide will be with you throughout your stay.
Day 2 January 25 Quito
After an early breakfast in your hotel we will walk to the main church at the Monastery of OLGS for novena prayers and personal time in front of the image. Then we will visit the historical plazas of Quito: Benalcazar and Plaza Grande. After our Noon Mass in a Private chapel we will have our welcome lunch together. The afternoon will be free.
Day 3 January 26 Quito
After the morning breakfast and free time, at OLGS (Our Lady of Grace School)main church for novena prayers and group rosary, we depart on bus for the Basilica where we will have our Mass in the chapel of the preserved hearts of Garcia Moreno and Archbishop Checa y Barba. After our tour of the Basilica and free time for lunch, we will travel to the Monastery of San Diego for its famous cemetery and Cloisters. We will then visit the Panecillo Mountain and home of the famous Apocalyptic Virgin. We will have our group dinner at night.
Day 4 January 27 Quito
After breakfast and free time at OLGS main church for novena prayers and group rosary, we depart on a walking tour of “in the footsteps of La Dolorosa”. We will first visit the Church of El Sagrario and then the 17th Century Jesuit complex of La Compania listed in the guide books as the most impressive in Latin America. We will visit the actual chapel of the miracle for time for reflection. After free time for lunch, we depart by our private bus to north Quito for Mass in front of the original miraculous image of La Dolorosa at the St. Gabriel boys school at 3:30. We end our day with the group dinner.
Day 5 January 28 Quito
We will have breakfast in your hotel. After breakfast we walk to the Monastery of OLGS for novena prayers and group rosary time inside the Monastery. We will visit the incorrupt bodies of the founding Mothers, the upper choir loft where the apparitions occurred, and a question and answer session with the Abadessa. Before lunch, we will visit the Monastery of La Merced. After lunch we will visit the Presidential Palace. We end the day with a late afternoon Mass in front of the image of OLGS in the main church.
Day 6 January 29 Quito
After breakfast and novena prayers and rosary in front of the miraculous image at OLGS main church, we set out for a tour at the Monastery of San Francisco followed by Mass in the church of Monastery Carmen Alto (Carmelites). We will have our group lunch there and a brief tour of the miraculous site for Saint Mother Mariana de Jesus Flores which was her former home. We then continue our walk to visit the oldest street in Quito “La Ronda”. The street now is home to many restaurants, shops and cafes. And….we will get a chance to visit the orphanage runs by the Sisters of “La Niñez.
Day 7 January 30 Quito and Valle de los Chillos
After breakfast we depart for the Monastery of OLGS for novena prayers and group rosary. We then depart on bus to a 17th Century Spanish Colonial Hacienda in the beautiful countryside outside of Quito. We will have our Mass there followed by a beautiful lunch among the historic gardens of the main house. We will return to Quito is late afternoon.
Day 8 January 31 Quito
After breakfast and OLGS for novena prayers and group rosary, we depart on bus of the Village of Guapulo. We will visit the Franciscan Monastery there and see where the Spanish Conquistador Francisco Orellana departed on his discovery of the Amazon basin. After the group lunch, we visit the Monastery of Buen Pastor and the church of San Hermano Miguel. We end the day with a late afternoon Mass at a school with a private collection of Garcia Moreno.
Day 9 February 1 Quito
After our morning breakfast in the hotel and novena prayers/group rosary in front of the miraculous image, we depart for our walking tour to Plaza Grande for “in the footsteps of Garcia Moreno” where we will learn of the life of this great Catholic President of Ecuador and retrace his last day on earth. The tour will be given by the Ecuadorian historian and author Dr. Francisco Salazar. We will visit the Plaza Grande (assassination site), the Cathedral (where he expired), the Monastery of Santa Catalina (where his body was secretly hidden for 100 years) and Monastery Santo Domingo (where he heard his last Mass) where will have our afternoon Mass
Day 10 February 2 Quito
Early rise at 4:30 for the rosary at dawn procession for Our Lady in the streets of Spanish Colonial Quito. We will then have a 7:00 a.m. Mass over the tomb of the incorrupt body of Mother Mariana inside the Monastery of OLGS. We then return to our hotels for breakfast and free time (the main church with the Miraculous image is open all morning). After our group lunch, the afternoon is free.
Day 11 February 3 Quito and Mitad del Mundo
Early Mass in a Private chapel before breakfast. After breakfast in your hotel, we take a bus to the Teriferico cable car to the top of Volcano Pichincha. Then, we visit the Mitad del Mundo (Middle of the world Monument). After our midday group lunch, we return to Quito for the ceremony to bring the miraculous image up to the upper choir loft at OLGS main church.
Day 12 January 4 Quito/Departures
Check out of hotels and transfers to airportSingle Supplement/Private Room $120
