Where should I go on a Divine Mercy pilgrimage in Poland and Lithuania?

By Andrew McGilly, Founder of Bold Pilgrim · Updated 2026-10-08

Go to three places first. Kraków-Łagiewniki holds St. Faustina's tomb, the Hyła image and the basilica dedicated by St. John Paul II in 2002. Płock is where, on February 22, 1931, she recorded the vision asking for the image and the feast. Vilnius, in Lithuania, keeps the first image, painted under her direction, and the house where the chaplet is dated to September 1935. Fuller routes add her birthplace at Głogowiec, the church of her baptism at Świnice Warckie, and the tomb of her confessor, Bl. Michael Sopoćko, in Białystok.

Many visits to Poland include only Łagiewniki, often as part of a day from central Kraków together with the neighboring Sanctuary of St. John Paul II. That is a real Divine Mercy pilgrimage in itself if the time there is unhurried. Warsaw also has a place in the story: Faustina entered the congregation at its convent on Żytnia Street in 1925.

The distances decide the rest. Warsaw is roughly 290 km (180 miles) north of Kraków, and Płock about 110 km (70 miles) northwest of Warsaw, so Płock and the birthplace villages in central Poland fit a journey that already passes through Warsaw. Vilnius is another 460 km (285 miles) or so northeast of Warsaw, in a different country, with Białystok on the way; from Kraków it is about 750 km (470 miles). Adding it turns a Kraków pilgrimage into a route of several more days.

Good to know before you go: the sisters in Płock have been raising a new shrine church on the site of the 1931 vision, so ask them what is open before you build a day around it. Decide first what you want to pray for, then how many places you can visit without rushing.

Where should I go on a Divine Mercy pilgrimage in Poland and Lithuania?

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