Welcome to the 2026 Pilgrimage Blog!
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Day 01 Rome
Pilgrimage in the Footsteps of St Paul – Rome**03 May 2026. This morning we gather at San Silvestro, pilgrims drawn together from different places yet united in one purpose: to walk, to pray, and to allow the witness of St Paul to shape our hearts. As we greet one another, we remember that Paul himself…
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Day 02 Rome
4 May 2026: After two amazing, enlightening weeks tracing the footsteps of St. Paul through Greece and Turkey, we arrived in beautiful Rome! As the saying goes “All roads lead to Rome” For us as Catholics, Rome and the Vatican is our spiritual home. As pilgrims on this journey, we continue to follow St Paul’s…
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Day 10 Istanbul
01 May. We started the day with drizzling rain, but our spirit was high. We drove south along the water of Golden Horn. We got on board the cruise boat Basari on the west side of the water and started sailing south crossing underneath the Galata Bridge. The boat turned north along the Bosphorus (Strait…
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Day 8 Ephesus, Turkey
We began the day with a generous breakfast which gave us energy for the day ahead. Our first visit was to the house of Mary, mother of Jesus, set high on the hill above Ephesus (present day Selcuk). It is widely believed that this is where Saint John the Evangelist cared for Mary during her…
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Day 7 Izmir (Symrna)
28 April 2026. We began the day in the cool stillness of an early morning, leaving the hotel at 7:00 am for our journey from Thessaloniki, Greece, to Istanbul, and onward to Izmir. There was a sense of transition, not just between destinations, but between chapters of our pilgrimage. Our six days in Greece had…
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Day 6 Philippi
27 April 2027: Today was our journey to Philippi in the north east of Macedonia to walk as near as we could in the footsteps of the Apostle Paul.But first outside what were once the walls of the city of Philippi we came to a place on the River Zygaktis where Paul preached the Gospel…
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Day 5 Thessaloniki, Greece
This is our first pilgrimage. We are thankful that we can make it amidst the conflict in the Middle East. We asked ourselves, what does it mean to be in the footsteps of St Paul, reading his letters while standing in the place that shaped them? We arrived Thessaloniki yesterday afternoon, 26 April 2026 and…
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Day 4 : Vergina, Veria.
Today we set off on the final stage of our travel to Thessaloniki. Travelling on the freeway, we had spectacular views of snow covered Mt Olympus. We stopped for our coffee break and took a group photo with Mt Olympus in our close background. We travelled on to Vergina and stopped to visit the spectacular…
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Day 3, Kalambaka and Meteora
A Landscape That Teaches the Soul Pilgrimage has a way of slowing the heart so it can listen. As our journey in the footsteps of St Paul brought us toward Kalambaka, the land itself began to speak. The Thessalian plain stretched wide and quiet, and then—almost without warning—the stone pillars of Meteora rose before us…
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Day 2 Athens, Greece
We visited the Acropolis, a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens. The area was an important intellectual, cultural and religious centre of ancient Athens. As we climb up towords the acropolis, we went passed the Sanctuary of Dionysis (Greek god of wine) as well as the Theatre of Dionysis where ancient Greek drama was…