Not Included: Airport Taxes approx. Items of a personal nature. Meals are served on board. Day 2: Aug 8 - Arrive Lourdes You will be met upon arrival in Lourdes Airport, and transferred to your hotel for dinner and overnight. Enjoy a video presentation telling the story of Lourdes, and walk in the footsteps of St Bernadette. See Boly Mill where St Bernadette was born and the "Cachot," an abandoned prison where Bernadette's impoverished family lived.
Join your prayers with those of pilgrims from around the world as you pray for the sick, drink water from the miraculous spring, pray at the Grotto and submerge yourself in the healing baths.
Experience Christ's love as you walk the life-sized Stations of the Cross overlooking the holy Grotto. Kneel in the chapel built on the very rock of the Grotto in obedience to the request of the "Immaculate Conception. Each evening dinner and overnight at your hotel. Upon arrival, you will meet your new guide.
We will travel by motor coach to the town of Nevers by way of the picturesque Loire Valley. After taking the veil in , St Bernadette lived for 12 years as a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of Nevers. At least three times during her short life-time, she received the last Sacraments.
She was gradually struck by other illnesses as well as asthma: among them, tuberculosis of the lung and a tubercular tumor on her right knee. St Bernadette eventually died at the age of See St Bernadette's incorrupt body at the convent of St Gildard, miraculously preserved since her death in Overnight in Nevers.
