A Canterbury pilgrimage group gathered at a holy site

Specialty Pilgrimages

Pilgrimages with a purpose

Some pilgrimages are built around something more: a choir singing Mass, a Holy Year, a youth group or a parish anniversary. Every one travels on your group’s own dates, with daily Mass and a tour manager on the ground.

30 pilgrimages

Themed pilgrimages

ChoirYour choir sings Mass and gives concerts. Five recommended routes across Europe and the Americas.Choir: Austria and Germany in AdventVienna, Melk, Salzburg and Munich in Christkindlmarkt season, with a sung Mass at Salzburg Cathedral.Choir: Prague, Vienna and SalzburgConcerts in Prague and Vienna, Melk Abbey, and sung Masses at Our Lady before Týn and Salzburg Cathedral.Choir: Berlin to AmsterdamBach and the Reformation, with St. Hedwig’s, Erfurt, Mainz, a Rhine cruise, Brussels and Bruges.Choir: Québec and MontrealSung Mass at Notre-Dame de Québec and St. Joseph’s Oratory, with Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré and Our Lady of the Cape.Choir: Buenos Aires and LujánThree concerts in Buenos Aires and a sung Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Luján, with Tigre and La Plata.Christmas MarketsAdvent in Vienna, Salzburg, Prague, Budapest and Kraków. Six recommended routes, one a Danube river cruise.Christmas Markets: Salzburg and ViennaEight days in Advent. Salzburg, the Silent Night Chapel, Mariazell, Melk Abbey and Vienna.Christmas Markets: Salzburg, Vienna and RomeEleven days in Advent. Salzburg, the Silent Night Chapel, Mariazell and Vienna, then Rome and the Papal Audience.Christmas Markets: KrakówEight days in Advent. The Kraków Christmas Market, Jasna Góra, Wadowice, Auschwitz and Divine Mercy.Christmas Markets: Budapest, Vienna and PragueTwelve days in Advent. Budapest, Vienna, Mariazell, Salzburg and Prague.Christmas Markets: the Danube by River ShipTen days in Advent. Nuremberg to Budapest by Regensburg, Passau, Melk, Vienna and Bratislava.Latin Mass PilgrimagesThe Traditional Latin Mass celebrated daily, for groups travelling with their own priest. Rome, Lourdes, Fátima, Kraków and the Holy Land.CanterburyThe cathedral where St. Thomas Becket was martyred, St. Augustine’s Abbey and the Pilgrims’ Way.Pilgrimages by SaintSaints and the shrines where they rest, each linked to the pilgrimage that goes there. Start from a patron rather than a country.Pilgrimages with a HostThe Catholic speakers, authors and radio hosts who lead Canterbury pilgrimages, and what each of them has open now.

Holy Years and Church events

World Youth Day Seoul 20273 to 8 August 2027. Parish, school and diocesan groups, with the Korean Martyrs route as an extension.St. James Holy YearAll of 2027 at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, with a plenary indulgence. Fátima to Lourdes, and two Camino routes.Guadalupe Jubilee Year12 October 2026 to 12 October 2027 at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, with a plenary indulgence. Mexico City and four routes.Guadalupe 2031Five hundred years since the apparitions at Tepeyac. Groups travel any month of 2031; register yours before the program is announced.Pilgrimages for Vatican EventsJubilees, papal audiences, canonizations and beatifications: the Church sets the date, we build the group around it.

For your group

Parish PilgrimagesYour own priest and daily Mass, your own dates, a custom brochure, and registrations and payments handled for you.Diocesan PilgrimagesYour own bishop and clergy, several hundred pilgrims across many coaches, and registrations handled for every parish.Youth PilgrimagesPaced for the age group, built to your chaperone ratio and safeguarding policy, with registrations taken from each family.School PilgrimagesThe dates your calendar allows, your chaperone ratio and safeguarding policy, and payments taken from each family.Pilgrimages for Catholic OrganisationsKnights of Columbus councils, the Legion of Mary and lay movements, built around your patron and your members.Seminary, Clergy and Religious PilgrimagesA seminary class, a presbyterate or a community visiting its founder, with the Hours and daily Mass built into the day.Ordination Anniversary PilgrimagesA priest’s jubilee marked by the parish he serves, built around the date and the place that matter to him.Private PilgrimagesFor a family or a group too small to fill a coach: your own party, your own pace, on your own dates.Pilgrimage ChaplainsFor a priest who would like to travel: serve as chaplain to a group that has no priest of its own, and travel free.

Don’t see what you’re looking for?

These are the pilgrimages we run most often, not the limit of where we go. If your group has somewhere particular in mind, a patron saint, a shrine, a country your parish has ties to, tell us and we will build it. Start with a conversation.

Thinking of leading one?

You travel free, there is no financial risk if the group does not fill, and we handle the registrations and the paperwork. How complimentary places work, what happens if a group does not fill, and how to promote a parish pilgrimage.