Glastonbury Pilgrimage News

Pilgrimage Set For 2012 - Eastern Europe

Glastonbury Abbey with Tom Dwyer of Seven Seas Voyages announce a pilgrimage to Eastern Europe.

When: May 13 - 26, 2012.

Cost: $4,339 per person from Boston

Where: Includes Krakow, Auschwitz, Czestochowa and Zakopane in Poland; Budapest and Pannonhalma in Hungary; Vienna, Mariazell, Melk and Salzburg in Austria; Nuremberg in Germany, and Prague in the Czech Republic. More details are now available at www.pilgrimages.com/sevenseas. An orientation session will be held in the fall.

For more information or if you have questions please contact Fr. Timothy Joyce at joycet@glastonburyabbey.org

HISTORY OF PILGRIMAGES AT GLASTONBURY ABBEY

Celtic Spirituality Pilgrimages were made to Ireland in 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2006. A Celtic pilgrimage to Scotland & Northumbria (northern England), similar to the 2011 pilgrimage described above, was made in 2004.

A pilgrimage to Italy, focusing on sites connected with the life of Saint Benedict, took place in 2005. A classic “In the Footsteps of Saint Paul” pilgrimage took a group to Greece, Turkey and Rome in 2007. In 2008, Fr. Tim led a “Walking with the Saints” pilgrimage to Northern Spain and France.  This tour included Santiago De Compostella, Burgos, Loyola, Lourdes, Lisieux, Mont St Michel, Omaha Beach, Rouen and Paris.  A similar pilgrimage was also conducted in 2010 that included Barcelona and Lisbon. 

In 2009, a pilgrimage was made to the Holy Land of Israel and included various locations important in the life of Jesus of Nazareth.  Among the places visited were Jerusalem, Nazareth, Jericho, Bethlehem, Tabgha, Capernaum, the Jordan River, the Dead Sea, and Qumran.