Traditional
Catholic Pilgrimage to Bavaria & Austria
Featuring a
two-day, 35 mile pilgrimage to Our Lady of Altötting Shrine
September
11-15, 2025
This pilgrimage is for traditional Catholics over 21 who are physically able to walk 35 miles over two days!
Wednesday, September 10 – TRAVEL DAY
International
flights from outside of Europe depart
OPTIONAL – Arrive in Munich on Wednesday by 3pm and receive transportation to Salzburg late in the afternoon and hotel stay in Salzburg Wednesday night at Hotel Drei Kreuz near Old Town. (Add $125 to registration cost.)
Thursday,
September 11 - SALZBURG
We will be joined by Kevin Davis of the Catholic Family podcast and our German friends Marcel Hampf, Martin Heyne, and Jonny Kohler.
Morning:
International pilgrims arrival at Salzburg airpot. To guarantee airport pickup flight
must arrive between 7am and 11am.
Afternoon and Evening: Sightsee major attractions in Salzburg.
Stay
Overnight in Salzburg at Hotel Drei Kreuz (12pm check-in) near Old Town
Friday, September 12 – FIRST DAY OF
PILGRIMAGE WALK - TRAUNSTEIN
We will join our Catholic friends in Germany, who are organizing this pilgrimage for the fourth consecutive year. This website for the Altotting pilgrimage provides more specific details.
There will be 15-20 miles of walking each day on the pilgrimage. There will be a shuttle that can pick up those struggling with the walk each day, but this will have limited space and it will still require those being picked up to walk at least 6-9 miles each day. Please consider this before registering!
Early
morning - Drive from Salzburg to Traunstein
10am -Pilgrimage
walk begins in Traunstein
Stay at host farmhouse roughly halfway on pilgrimage overnight.
Saturday, September 13 – SECOND DAY of
PILGRIMAGE WALK and ALTÖTTING
Early Morning Mass at farmhouse
All Day –
Pilgrimage walk to Altötting Marian Shrine
6pm –
finish pilgrimage walk (at latest) at Altötting
Stay
Overnight in Altötting at Hotel Stadthaus Valentin (next to shrine)
Sunday, September 14 - MUNICH
Drive
to Mass
9:30am
– Mass near Munich at Fr. Heyne’s chapel (CMRI)
Brunch
after Mass with all pilgrims
Afternoon
and Evening – Sightsee major attractions in Munich
Stay Overnight at Augusten Hotel (2pm check-in) near main train station
Monday, September 15 – TRAVEL HOME FROM
MUNICH
We will provide transportation to the airport in the
morning.
PILGRIMAGE
COST: $450 for 4 nights lodging, transportation, and airport shuttle service
($575 if flying in earlier on Wednesday and staying Wednesday night in Salzburg)
Includes double occupancy overnight hotel accommodations for
Thursday (Salzburg), Friday (farmhouse on pilgrimage route), Saturday (Altötting),
and Sunday (Munich). All transportation from place to place, including Salzburg
to the beginning of pilgrimage, Altötting to chapel for Sunday Mass, and from
chapel to Munich hotel. Includes walking tours of Salzburg and Munich. Includes
airport transportation as long as you arrange flights in windows specified in
itinerary. Cost does not include meals, which you will need to pay on your own.
For those in Europe who wish to travel to pilgrimage by
train: Our hotels in Salzburg and Munich are a very short walk from the
main train stations, so this is a very manageable option.
DUE TO LODGING, TRANSPORTATION, AND LOGISTICAL
CONSIDERATIONS, THIS PILGRIMAGE PACKAGE IS LIMITED TO 10 PEOPLE! ONLY THOSE WHO REGISTER AND PAY PILGRIMAGE FEE WILL HAVE SPOT RESERVED!
Organizer and Host
Terrence McKeegan is an attorney by profession who has organized dozens of events in the US,
and in many countries including China, Russia, the Philippines, Ireland, Germany, Austria,
Italy, England, France, Switzerland, Poland, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Hungary, Mexico,
Belize, and East Timor. He is also the primary organizer of the Rocky Mountain Trad gathering.
- Cancel before June 30: Receive a full refund
- If you cancel after June 30 but before August 1, we will do everything to fill your slot, and if we fill your slot you will receive a full refund.
- If you cancel after August 1, there will be no refund. However, you would be allowed to find an accepted pilgrim in your place to take your slot.
