Divine Mercy Pilgrimage

With Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate

Led by Fr. Ignatius Manfredonia

April 6 – 15, 2026

Dear Friends,

I am pleased to invite you to join us on this wonderful journey to places of prayer and religious history through Poland, featuring Divine Mercy Sunday at the International Shrine in Kraków. While every pilgrimage brings the opportunity for its share of graces, traveling the road together makes such journeys even more enjoyable. We will entrust our time together to the maternal protection of our dear Lady of Częstochowa, in imitation of the great Saint John Paul II. We will also have an opportunity to reflect on lives of heroic holiness in Polish saints such as St. Maximilian Kolbe and St. Faustina.

We’ll visit Warsaw, following in the footsteps of St. Faustina, and Niepokalanów, where St. Maximilian Kolbe initiated the “City of the Immaculata.” Our pilgrimage will take us to Częstochowa’s Jasna Góra Monastery and the Chapel of the Miraculous Icon of the Black Madonna, as well as the former concentration camp of Auschwitz, the site of martyrdom for St. Maximilian Kolbe. We’ll proceed to Kraków, where Fr. Karol Wojtyla began his life as a priest and offered his first Mass. Celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday at the International Shrine of Divine Mercy, dedicated by St. John Paul II during his last visit to Poland, and celebrate Mass at the Church of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary in Wadowice, where Karol Wojtyla was baptized.

Our pilgrimage promises to be a journey of great graces, camaraderie, and great memories! I look forward to being with you for this wonderful pilgrimage.

Fr. Ignatius Manfredonia, FI