Authentically-Catholic Pilgrimages with Premier Hosts

Built around the faith

Daily Mass is part of every itinerary and Confession is available throughout. We arrange Mass at the shrines and basilicas themselves, which means sacristy coordination, celebret paperwork, and permissions handled well in advance. Our guides understand these sites as places of faith and can speak to the saints, the history, and the doctrine behind them.

Some of our pilgrims are lifelong Catholics. Others are returning to the faith, exploring it for the first time, or traveling alongside a spouse or friend. All of them are welcome, and more than a few have told us afterward that the pilgrimage was where something changed.

Canterbury is built on more than forty years of pilgrimage experience. We take on the work that wears out group leaders: air contracts, rooming lists, payment collection, registration, and the call at 2am when a flight cancels. Bishops, priests, and Catholic media leaders come back to us because the details hold.

For parishes, dioceses and Catholic organizations

Most of our pilgrims travel with someone they already know: a pastor, a deacon, a director of faith formation, a bishop, or a Catholic media leader.

If you have never led a pilgrimage before, that is where most of our group leaders started. We help you build the itinerary you want, then produce the flyer, build the registration page, take the calls, collect the payments, and travel with you. Complimentary places are arranged based on the size of your group and built into your pricing from the start, so you know what you are working with before you announce anything.

Where we travel

Our most popular destinations are Italy, where groups celebrate Mass in Rome and walk the streets of Assisi, and France, home to Lourdes, Lisieux, Paris, and the Carmelite shrines. Others travel to Fatima and Portugal, along the Camino de Santiago in Spain, to Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico, to Poland for St. John Paul II and Divine Mercy, and to the Holy Land.

We also have pilgrimages departing to Ireland, England, Greece and Turkey, Medjugorje, Croatia, Prague, Austria and Hungary, the California Missions and the shrines of the United States and Canada, Japan, South Korea for World Youth Day, Ecuador, and Peru.

If your group wants a destination we have not listed, we build custom itineraries anywhere in the world. Learn about leading a pilgrimage or see our current departures.