McCabe
PILGRIMAGES


Portfolio 2004/5
A selection of Bible related tours to a wide range of destinations.

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Tour dates are for 2004 unless otherwise stated

 

Turkey

Greece

Italy

Egypt

Jordan & 
Sinai

Lebanon &
 Syria

Santiago de Compostela

Special Tours

The following are just a selection of our tours. Other departures, dates and destinations are available. Please contact us
with your requirements. Please note that the prices featured are usually the basic tour prices.
 There may be extras such as insurance or optional tours. 

Turkey

Turkey is McCabe’s most popular destination after the Holy Land. We offer itineraries which help to reveal the life of the Early Church and retrace the steps of some of the early Christians, including St Paul and St John.

Our Istanbul and the Seven Churches
itinerary combines an experience of imperial Byzantium with the life of the persecuted Church in Asia Minor. In Istanbul the highlights include Hagia Sophia, the Justinian Cisterns, the Hippodrome and Topkapi Palace. In Aegean Turkey we find our understanding of the early Christian communities and their unique relationship with St Paul and St John is deepened as we read and pray at places such as Ephesus and Laodicea. The pilgrimage includes visits to all Seven Churches of St John's Revelation. 

Tours including
Cappadocia go further into the hinterland of Turkey to visit an area of outstanding natural beauty, where our main points of interest are the rock-cut churches of the very earliest Christians.

We also have a range of programmes in Eastern Turkey featuring Trabzon (Sumela monastery), Van, Ani, Mount Ararat, Harran and other sites of Christian and general interest

Our Gulet (yacht) cruises combine a leisurely week of cruising (with sightseeing) with a variety of land-based extensions such as Istanbul, Ephesus or others of the Seven Churches. Many have commented on the relaxed nature of the sail and this tour is becoming one of our most popular tours.

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Tour Dates & Details                        

Istanbul & the 7 Churches  

 

21-30 September

Mrs Ann Potts  £870


21-31 October

Revd George Brigham,  £895

 

3-16 September
Revd Sally Thomas, £1090

 

 

Cappadocia

 

16-27 September
Albans Diocese, £995

 

 

Gulet Tours

 

27 Sept - 9 Oct
Canon Phillip Norwood  £1320


29 Sept - 10 Oct

Revd Douglas Hare,  £1245


16-26 September
Mrs Anne Oliver, £1195

 

 

Eastern Turkey

 

28 Aug - 9 Sept
The Rt Revd John Hind,  £1085


13-28 September
Mrs Frances Brown, £1630

Greece

McCabe Pilgrimages has developed a 10 day tour through the heart of the Greek mainland featuring the principal people and places described in the Acts of the Apostles, set against the context of Ancient Greece.  We visit the Acropolis in Athens where St Paul addressed his ministry for the first time to a gentile audience. We explore the extensive remains of Corinth and nearby Delphi, epicentre of ancient Greek civilisation, before travelling north by way of the spectacular Meteora monasteries to Berea, Thessalonica and Philippi. 

We read and pray where some of the first Christians worshipped and witnessed and gain an understanding of the Classical world and how it influenced the growth of the early church.

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Tour Dates & Details      

8-18 October
Revd Jack Lamb
A Spiritual journey through Greece (including 3-night island cruise)
£1295

23-31 October
Revd Prebendary Dr David Bronnert
In the Steps of St Paul
£995

 

 

Italy

 

The McCabe 8 day programme to Rome and Assisi is packed with diverse interests. During our time in Rome we touch on the earliest days of our faith as we visit the catacombs and Colosseum.  We feel the might and grandeur of the Roman empire as we travel along the Appian Way and visit the Pantheon temple. In this setting we explore the Vatican City and the Cistine Chapel. Wednesday gives the opportunity to attend the Papal audience in St Peter’s Square. The second part of our pilgrimage is a 2 night stay in Assisi, the home village of St Francis, a picturesque town where nature, art and faith come together and the ideal place for us to reflect on the momentous influence this area has had on the church from its earliest beginnings.

We have developed a new 11 day programme which has proved universally successful.  This pilgrimage is based in Rome and in the Umbrian town of Citta di Castelli, which allows for visits to Florence, Siena and Arezzo, as well as Assisi. 

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Tour Dates & Details    

20-27 September
Revd David Hamblin,  £895

29 Sept - 9 October

Mrs Margaret Blaine, £1095

11-21 September
Revd Bill Scott  £1175

2-10 October
Canon Stephen Holdaway, £1075

22 October - 1 November
Revd Peter Hammersley £1095

                                                      

Egypt

 

The life-giving waters of the Nile have shaped the world since the dawn of history.  Cruising the Nile is the most stress-free and exciting way of travelling between the sites of Egypt; it offers a glimpse of a timeless world and provides the perfect opportunity for a Church group to relax and enjoy a wonderful tour.

We offer an eight day tour which flies directly into Luxor from London with Egyptair and spends three nights in a five star hotel in Luxor and four nights on a five star Nile Cruiser.

For the Christian visitor Egypt offers real insights into the Old Testament narrative and in Cairo there is the opportunity to encounter the Coptic church. A three night Cairo extension opens up these options as well provide the opportunity to see the Pyramids at Giza and the impressive archaeological finds from across the country at the Egyptian Museum.

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Tour Dates & Details  
 

23-31 October
Revd Clive Thrower &
  Canon Richard Orchard, £1145


8-26 October
Mrs Frances Brown, £1225

 

Jordan & Sinai

 

The Sinai is sacred for Jew, Christian and Muslim and over the centuries has been a focus of pilgrimage. It was in this spectacular wind-sculpted desert and mountain landscape that Moses received the Tablets of the Law and saw the Burning Bush.


Jordan is famed for the rock-cut Nabatean city of Petra - undoubtedly one of the most wondrous of ancient sites.  But there is much else that the visitor can enjoy including Jerash, Mount Nebo, Bethany beyond the Jordan, Madeba, Kerak, Wadi Rum, the Dead Sea and the Red Sea !!

McCabe Pilgrimages offers a range of tours to these fascinating lands.


 

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Tour Dates & Details
 

Jordan

 

6-17 September
Revd Bill Raines, £1095

 

 

 

Jordan & Sinai
 

27 September - 7 October
Canon Anthony Phillips 

£1195

 

6 - 17 October
Revd Bob Jackson

£1095

 

 

Lebanon & Syria

These McCabe itineraries features visits in Lebanon to the Phoenician ports of Sidon and Tyre and the Roman temple at Baalbek. In Syria we follow in the steps of St Paul through Damascus, travel into the eastern desert to Palmyra and in Maaloula encounter a village where Aramaic, the language of Jesus, is still spoken. 

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Tour Dates & Details

22 Sept - 5 October
Canon Adrian Slade
£1295

2-14 May 2005
(Syria)
Canon Geoffrey Marshall
£1325

 

 

 

 

Santiago de Compostela

After Jerusalem and Rome, the greatest Christian shrine was that at
Santiago de Compostela. Early in the 9th Century King Alfonso II announced that he had found the burial place of St James. Many thousands lost their lives making this perilous journey in the Middle Ages. Our journey by plane and coach is quicker and a lot less arduous but we will focus on the meaning of pilgrimage, visiting cathedrals, monasteries, wayside chapels and bridges which all sprang up along the ancient way.

We begin in Bilbao, with the opportunity to visit the Guggenheim Museum, then join in the 'Camino' route followed by pilgrims through the ages. We include a comprehensive programme of sightseeing and add fun touches such as a wine tasting in the Rioja and a traditional 'Queimada' night out at the end of the journey.You will have the opportunity to walk parts of the route as, unlike other holidays, for us the journey will be the essence and not the arriving.

Tour Dates & Details

                                       


30 August - 8 September
Revd Heather Penman,  £1245
 

Special Tours

 

Every year McCabe Pilgrimages operates a range of tours to places beyond our usual portfolio. These offer exciting journeys to fascinating and you would be most welcome to join one of these departures.  

 

 

 

The Diocese of Iran

 

A PERSIAN ODYSSEY with the Friends of the Diocese of Iran

Our programme offers a unique opportunity to explore the historic and architecturally distinguished cities in Iran in the context of the local Christian community living in an Islamic Republic.  After a day in the museums and palaces of Tehran, we fly to Kerman and see the extraordinary walled city of Bam.  We visit Shiraz, once the capital city, and home to two of the most celebrated Persian poets (Hafez and Sa'di).  We continue to royal Isfahan, Shah Abbas' capital and one of the world's most beautiful cities. Yazd, an oasis in the desert, is famous for its wind towers which cool the old houses, and for its Zoroastrian community.  We visit the Towers of Silence and the sacred fire in the mountain shrine of Chaq Chaq.  We journey north via Natanz to Kashan.  Between the mountains and the desert, Kashan is said to be the place from which the Three Wise Men set out for Bethlehem.  It once boasted twenty-four caravanserai, eighteen mosques and thirty-five hotels, but it is now a quiet town of old houses, shrines and the peaceful Bagh-I Fin Safavid garden.  From Kashan, we return to Tehran.

Holy Russia

We combine stays in Moscow and St Petersburg,  as well as visiting some of the monasteries along the River Volga.  We will be visiting old working monasteries such as the Trinity Monastery at Sergiev Posad and the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St Petersburg, as well as the recently reconstructed Church of Christ the King.   

During the early Christian period, clergy from the Byzantine Empire came to Russia although the Slav tongue was always used in worship and gradually Russian clergy replaced the Greeks.  The church's headquarters stayed in Kiev until 1300 when they moved briefly north to Vladimir and then to Moscow in the 1320s.

 Oberammergau.


In 2003 McCabe celebrated it's 20th birthday.  As part of our celebration nearly 300 travellers journeyed to Oberammergau and Austria.  The highlights of the tour were special Gala dinners to celebrate our birthday, a performance of the opera Nabucco in the Passion Play theatre and a Songs of Praise service in the Oberammergau Parish church.  Following the success of this venture, more departures have been planned (including operas!) in 2004. 

 

 

 

Tour Dates & Details

 

 

 

 

Diocese of Iran


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Holy Russia

 

3-13 September 
Revd Robert Llewelyn &
     Revd John Staples
 £1295

 

Oberammergau

5-12 July 2004
Revd Janet Roe
Mosern (Austria), 4 nights,
Oberammergau, 3 nights
to include the Aida opera in the
passion play theatre.
£845

2-9 August 2004
Revd Richard Firth
Maria Alm (Austria), 4 nights
Oberammergau, 3 nights
to include the Nabucco opera in the
passion play theatre.
£795 (From Newcastle)




 

 


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