SAN GIOVANI ROTONDO PILGRIMAGE
From Friday 23 to Wednesday 28 May 2025
6 DAYS / 5 NIGHTS
DAY 1 / Friday May 23, 2025:
NICE / NAPLES / SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO
2:30 p.m.: Meet at Nice Airport with a cabin suitcase + small backpack
4:00 p.m.: Take-off - Arrival at 5:30 p.m. Naples airport
6:30 p.m.: MINI BUS departure from Naples towards SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO (approximately 215 km)
8:30 p.m.: Arrival at the 3* hotel - Check-in to accommodation (……………………).
9:00 p.m.: Dinner
DAY 2 / Saturday May 24, 2025:
SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO / PIETRELCINA / SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO
7:00 a.m.: Breakfast,
7:30 a.m.: MINIBUS departure for Pietrelcina
9:30 a.m.: Arrival in the village . Discovery of the town where Padre Pio was born on May 25, 1887.
Visit to the Padre Pio Museum in Pietrelcina - Attached to the convent of the Capuchin friars is the Padre Pio Museum. A stop not to be missed due to the importance of the objects found. Visiting the Padre Pio Museum is almost an emotional experience.
Visit to the parish church of Saint Anne where he was baptized
Visit to the Torreta , not far from Padre Pio's house. A small room, built on the rock, which is accessed by a steep staircase. This small room housed Padre Pio between 1909 and 1912, difficult years of illness that kept him away from the convent.
Free visit of the family home , as well as the Capuchin convent.
Eucharistic celebration at the Capuchin convent (subject to change).
12:30 p.m.: Plan a snack or restaurant for lunch
2:00 p.m.: Stations of the Cross (the big one in the mountains)
5:00 p.m.: Departure towards the hotel in San Giovanni Rotondo –
7:00 p.m.: Arrival at the hotel
7:15 p.m.: Dinner
9:00 p.m.: Marian torchlight procession - San Giovanni Rotondo
DAY 3 / Sunday May 25, 2025:
DAY IN SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO
"It was in San Giovanni Rotondo, on September 20, 1918, that Padre Pio received the stigmata that inflicted considerable suffering on him throughout his life. Made famous by his healing powers, he attracted many followers and was canonized in 2002. He received several apparitions of our Lord Jesus Christ. He died after celebrating the 50th anniversary of receiving his stigmata."
7:30 a.m.: Breakfast,
9:00 a.m.: Pilgrimage to the small chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Graces, where Padre Pio used to celebrate Mass until the day it became too small to accommodate the crowd of faithful. Work began on building a new church, the current sanctuary of Saint Mary of Graces. It was in this church that Padre Pio celebrated his last Mass on September 22, 1968.
Discovery of symbolic places: the confessional, the crypt where the tomb of the Saint is located, the room of Padre Pio's personal effects, his cell, the crucifix of stigmatization.
12:00 p.m.: Lunch
2:00 p.m.: Passage in front of the Casa della Sofferenza.
This hospital was wanted by Padre Pio as a "place of Prayer and Science", where "the sick, the doctors and the priests would be reserves of love, which, the more abundant it was in a person, the more it would be communicated to others".
Visit the Church of Saint Pio , an extraordinary work by the architect Renzo Piano, inaugurated after the Canonization of Padre Pio.
Mass Confession time The confessional, the Crucifix of the stigmata, Discovery of the Museum.
7:00 p.m.: Dinner at the hotel
DAY 4 / Monday May 26, 2025
SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO / MOUNT SAN ANGELO / SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO
"During this pilgrimage we will head to the region of Puglia - the spur of the Italian boot. We will go to pray at the Sanctuary of Saint Michael of Mount Gargano, the oldest sanctuary in Western Europe dedicated to the archangel where many pilgrimages have taken place since the Middle Ages. According to tradition, around the year 490 the Archangel Michael appeared several times to the Bishop of Sipontum, near a cave. The feast of the Archangel of Mount Gargano is May 8, which is called the Saint Michael of Spring."
7:30 a.m.: Breakfast,
8:30 a.m.: Departure by MINI BUS to Monte Sant'Angelo - Arrival 9:00 a.m.
Also known as "Terra dell' Arcangelo", it is the highest point in the Gargano (843m).
Visit to the Sanctuary of San Michele - With its octagonal bell tower
Visit the museum
12:00 p.m.: Eucharistic celebration in the grotto of Saint Michael the Archangel 12:30 p.m.: Departure for the hotel in San Giovanni Rotondo – Arrival 1:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m.: Lunch at the hotel
2:00 p.m.: Free afternoon to visit San Giovanni Rotondo
DAY 5 / Tuesday May 27, 2025
SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO / POMPEÎ / SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO
7:30 a.m.: Breakfast,
8:00 a.m.: Departure for Pompeii
10:30 a.m.: Arrival in Pompeii
5:00 p.m.: Departure for the hotel
7:30 p.m.: Dinner
DAY 6 / Wednesday May 28, 2025
SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO / NAPLES / NICE
7:30 a.m.: Luggage in the hotel lobby - Breakfast
10:30 a.m.: Departure by MINI BUS for Naples - Plan for a snack or restaurant for lunch
12:30 p.m.: Arrival at Naples airport
2:10 p.m.: Take off for Nice Airport
3:40 p.m.: Arrival at Nice airport
The PADRE PIO association reserves the right to modify the program. Always in the interest and the smooth running of the program.
Thank you for your understanding.
Fri, 23 MaySAN GIOVANI ROTONDO23 May 2025, 14:30 – 28 May 2025, 16:00The “Padre PIO” Association offers a “Pilgrimage in Puglia with the Archangel Saint Michael”, at Mount Gargano (Sanctuary of San Michele) and at San Giovanni Rotondo (in the footsteps of Padre Pio) from May 23 to 27, 2025 .