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Good Friday
(originally posted on Facebook, 7th April 2023) I have visited Good Friday Processions all over Malta. Zejtun, Zebbug, Cospicua, Vittiriosa, Senglea, Valletta, Rabat. The most pompous one was Qormi. The one I liked most was Luqa.
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Maundy Thursday
(originally posted on Facebook, 6th April 2023) Altar of Repose, Cospicua I intend to write about my own experiences on Maundy Thursday later, in another edition of my ‘Malta ‘memoirs’.
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Malta in 1973
(originally posted on Facebook, 4 and 5 th April 2023) In 1973 Malta was an independent country with the British Queen Elizabeth II as Head of State. She was represented locally by a Maltese Governor-General. Father Charles’ advice I started my research a few days later at Dun Charles’ office as Director of the Cana…
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Our first day in Malta
(originally posted on Facebook, 3rd April 2023) The next day, Saturday 7th April, I bought my first copy of The Times of Malta in a small shop on Tower Road. I wonder if it is still there. We had to make ourselves familiar with the recently introduced Malta pound or lira (Lm), which was divided…
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Our first arrival in Malta, now 50 years ago
(originally posted on Facebook, 2nd April 2023) I became interested in Malta in the late sixties of the previous century. After I managed to get a small research grant we (my wife, our two children and me) drove in early April 1973 overland in five days via Belgium, France and Italy to Siracusa, where we…