Pilgrimage to El Salvador
10th - 21st November 2010
Bookings are now closed for this unique pilgrimage during which 30 people will visit the holy places associated with the life, ministry and death of Archbishop Romero and the modern day martyrs of El Salvador.
Memorial at the site of the murder of Fr. Rutilio Grande
The pilgrimage will include:
- a morning at the Carmelite Hospital where Romero lived
- Mass in the chapel where he was assassinated in 1980
- a visit to the Cathedral where he preached and is now buried
- a visit to the place where the North American religious women where raped and killed in the same year Romero was shot.
- a visit to the University where the 6 Jesuits and their housekeepers where gunned down in 1989
- a visit to Cuidad Barrios where Romero was born
- a visit to Aguilares where Fr. Rutilio Grande was killed
- a visit to El Mozote
- a visit to the lakeside town of Suchitoto.
Museum visits and lunch by the Pacific Ocean are included. in the schedule. The Pilgrimage will also include a visit to one of the poorer, troubled areas of the capital city in the company of one of the religious teams working there.
Talks, special masses and prayer services are included in the programme.
Talks, special masses and prayer services are included in the programme.
