Post-Tour Extension to

Paris

This Extension may be taken after the Pilgrimages to Lourdes -- Rome & Lourdes -- Fatima & Lourdes only if air from the U.S. is included

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Continental breakfasts

Tuesday
Full day sightseeing of Catholic Paris.  Visit Notre Dame Cathedral and Sacre Coeur Basilica.  Continue to the Left Bank to visit the site of the Miraculous Medal of St. Catherine Laboure, then to St. Denis, dedicated to the first bishop of Paris.  Overnight in Paris.

Wednesday
Day at leisure in Paris for browsing and shopping.  Morning Optional motorcoach Cityrama Tour, showing you all the main sites of the city.  Afternoon Optional Excursion to Versailles..  Overnight in Paris.

Thursday
Transfer to airport, fly AIR FRANCE transatlantic flight to your U.S. gateway.  Arrive in the afternoon.
                                                       Welcome Home !

The Miraculous Medal of St. Catherine Laboure - On the famous Left Bank in Paris stands the Chapel of the Daughters of Charity, where the Blessed Lady appeared in 1830 to Sr. Catherine of the Congregation founded by St. Vincent de Paul.  During the second Apparition, she was instructed to have a medal struck with the radiant likeness of the Lady.  Her confessor did not believe her, and the medal ended up being struck only two years later, with the permission of the Archbishop.  For all the years thereafter, the Medal was venerated without the public knowing that it originated as a consequence of apparitions;  Sr. Catherine only confessed the story to her mother superior just before dying in 1876.  In 1933 her body was exhumed and found intact; even her robe had not changed.  She was canonized in 1947 and is buried in the Chapel beneath the Altar of the Apparitions.

St. Denis was buried in the Basilica at Saint-Denis, also the traditional burial place of the Kings and Queens of France.