Departure from Dulles International Airport - Washington (USA)

Arrival to Cracow. Pick-up to the hotel. Check-in. Free time. 15.00 Lunch. Rest in the hotel or walk in the center, or Łagiewniki sightseeing. Dinner.

Breakfast. CRACOW. Holy Mass in the Sanctuary of Divine Mercy. Visitation places associated with St. s. Faustina: Divine Mercy Shrine in Krakow – Lagiewniki - Her novitiate she spent in Cracow, Jesus gave her the message of divine mercy. She pronounced her first religious vows, and five years later, she made her perpetual profession of the vows of chastity, poverty and obedience. She was assigned to work in a number of the Congregation’s houses, but for a longer period in those of Cracow, Plock and Vilnius, fulfilling the duties of cook, gardener and doorkeeper. The Cloister of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy. The place where Sister Faustina earthly remains rest. Basilica of the tower, chapels, Chapel with the image of Merciful Jesus. In Lagiewniki Pope John Paul II made an act of offering the world Divine Mercy.
Lunch.
Sanctuary of Saint John Paul II - the "Be not afraid!" Saint John Paul II center: the Lower Church (The priest's chapel was designed after the model of the Wawel crypt of St. Leonard, which was of particular importance in the life of Saint. John Paul II: it was there that Karol Wojtyła celebrated his first Holy Mass on November 2, 1946. There was a slab from the first grave of the Polish Pope, which was located in the Vatican Grottoes in St. Peter's Basilica. Peter in Rome. The chapel contains numerous votive offerings and souvenirs related to the Saint. The Church of Relics is the heart of the Lower Church. It is the central chapel, surrounded by two rings of chapels and oratories. The altar contains a relic of the Holy Father's blood. The walls are covered with mosaics depicting Saint. John Paul II and his special cult to the Mother of God. The main painting shows the Polish Pope surrounded by Polish saints whom he beatified or canonized. Spiritual program in the evening. Dinner.

Breakfast. CRACOW. Holy Mass in the Sanctuary of Divine Mercy or Wawel Hill - Holy Mass - if possible in the Chapel of St. Leonard in the basement of the cathedral, where his celebrated First Mass young priest Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II). Visitation places associated with St. John Paul II - tour of the Royal City - CRACOW (historic sites from the outside): The Royal Route - the Barbican, medieval defense walls, St. Florian's Gate, Main Market Square, St. Mary's Basilica, Sukiennice Hall, Town Hall, the Pope's window in Franciscan Street - residence on Kanonicza street and Metropolitan Curia. Lunch. Visiting: Jagiellonian University, Kanonicza Street - the oldest street in Krakow, St. Grodzka Street. Peter and Paul's Church and St.. Andrew's Church. Planty, Blonia. Dinner and overnight.

WADOWICE – KALWARIA ZEBRZYDOWSKA - CRACOW
Breakfast. Transfer to WADOWICE - the new interactive exhibition – opened in 2014 - in the Museum in the House of the Family of Pope John Paul II (the birthplace of the future pope) the parish church, and the Virgin Mary's Offertory basilica, where Karol Wojtyła was baptized on 20 June 1920. Lunch. Transfer to KALWARIA ZEBRZYDOWSKA. Holy Mass. Visit the historic Bernardine monastery (UNESCO listed) together with its miraculous image of Our Lady of Calvary. Karol Wojtyla with his father made a pilgrimage to this image after the death of his mother, then he often visited the place as a priest, bishop, cardinal and pope. Here he entrusted his pontificate to Mother of God and spoke the words “Totus Tuus” (All yours). In June 1979, the pope bestowed the title of Minor Basilica to the church dedicated to Our Lady of the Angels on the oldest Calvary in Poland. Pilgrims take a walk on paths and historic baroque chapels of Our Lady and on the Way of the Cross. Departure from Kalwaria and return to Krakow. Dinner.

Breakfast. CRACOW - ZAKOPANE. Departure to ZAKOPANE - Winter Capital of Poland. Holy Mass in the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Krzeptowki (built as a Votive Offering of thanks for saving the life of John Paul II after the assassination of 13.05.1981 r.). Visiting: sanctuary is surrounded by white - yellow Papal flags, monument of the Holy Father, two Stations of the Cross, in which the Pope Placed. Each Mass, each rosary every evening prayer prayed to God that is associated with one and the same intention - as Pope John Paul II. Lunch. Ground cable car trip to Gubalowka - Tatra Mountains - view of mountains. Return to Cracow. Dinner.

Breakfast. CRACOW – AUSCHWITZ – WIELICZKA. Transfer to AUSCHWITZ. The visit to the camp (about 3.5 hours): visitors watch a film about the concentration camp and visit the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau. „Auschwitz-Birkenau was the principal and most notorious of the six concentration and extermination camps established by Nazi Germany to implement its Final Solution policy which had as its aim the mass murder of the Jewish people in Europe. Built in Poland under Nazi German occupation initially as a concentration camp for Poles and later for Soviet prisoners of war, it soon became a prison for a number of other nationalities. Between the years 1942-1944 it became the main mass extermination camp where Jews were tortured and killed for their so-called racial origins. In addition to the mass murder of well over a million Jewish men, women and children, and tens of thousands of Polish victims, Auschwitz also served as a camp for the racial murder of thousands of Roma and Sinti and prisoners of several European nationalities” . Lunch. Transfer to WIELICZKA to Salt Mine. 2.5 hours-long walking tour of the world's only historic Salt Mine (UNESCO World Heritage Site). Tourists come down the staircase in the Daniłowicz Shaft into the mine. The tourist route leads through underground chapels and caves carved out of salt (underground, the route is about 3 km long). The St. Kinga's Chapel is perhaps the finest and greatest of the chapels. Level 3 operates a museum exhibition featuring collections of old mining equipment, mineralogical collections, old documents, and arts and crafts. Come back to Cracow. Holy Mass in the Sanctuary of Divine Mercy. Sharing. Dinner.

Breakfast in CRACOW. Free day at the Shrine of Divine Mercy: Holy Mass in the Sanctuary of Divine Mercy, lunch, dinner.

Breakfast. CRACOW – CZĘSTOCHOWA. Transfer to
CZĘSTOCHOWA. JASNA GÓRA - Monastery which, along with Fatima in Portugal and Lourdes in France, Jasna Gora is one of the most important and active pilgrimage venues in the entire Christian world. Sightseeing tour of the Sanctuary. Holy Mass in the Chapel of Our Lady of Czestochowa with the Miraculous Icon of Black Madonna. Lunch. Free time. Dinner. At 9 PM Jasna Gora Appeal.

Breakfast. CZĘSTOCHOWA – PŁOCK. Transfer to PŁOCK. Pick up to PLOCK. Lunch. PLOCK – the Sanctuary of Divine Mercy, here's Faustina had a vision first Merciful Lord Jesus in 1931, who asked her to paint a picture and talks about the Feast of Mercy. Holy Mass. Sharing. Dinner.

Breakfast. PŁOCK – ŚWINICE WARCKIE – WARSAW. Transfer to GLOGOWIEC - the birthplace of Helen Kowalska (Faustina) and a Baptismal Holy Shrine in ŚWINICE WARCKIE. Holy Mass. Lunch. Transfer to WARSAW. Dinner.

Breakfast. WARSAW – the capital of Poland. Visitation: places associated with St. s. Faustina in Warsaw: General home of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, where sister Faustina entered. 9, Żytnia Street. Upon her entrance to the Congregation Helen Kowalska received the name Sister Mary Faustina. Holy Mass. Lunch.
WARSAW tour of Old Town, Castle Square, Sigismund's Column, Royal Castle, the Krakowskie Przedmieście Street – President Palace, Cathedral St. John, Warsaw University, Grand Theatre. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Jozef Pilsudski Square, where the Holy Father John Paul II had said before 300,000 faithful: "Do not be afraid". Palace of Culture and Science (panorama of city).
Dinner.

Breakfast. WARSAW. Pick-up to Okęcie Airport. Departure from Warsaw to USA.