The return of the statue and painting of the Virgin Mary was celebrated by most of the island’s population
Topic: Malta
Please let us celebrate Ascension on Thursday again
Posted on Thursday, 2 June 2011
The current Sunday arrangement has not been a great success
How was your Easter?
Posted on Monday, 25 April 2011
Easter on the island of Malta is filled with colourful processions and feasting
The Mass of the Last Supper is, to me, the most beautiful service in Holy Week
Posted on Wednesday, 20 April 2011
One of the glories of the Triduum is the long and silent adoration at the Altar of Repose. One of its miseries is the attempt by misguided people to fill in the silence
The friar and the Caravaggio thieves
Posted on Thursday, 29 July 2010
Meet the Maltese priest at the heart a sting operation which saved a precious painting of St Jerome
Brothers play for Malta
Posted on Friday, 2 July 2010
Rob Holloway, left, and his brother Tom, right, are pictured during their appearance for the MCC in the annual celebratory cricket match against their old school
A plunge into the waters that soaked St Paul
On a baking hot afternoon in the Maltese sea, a schoolmate and I almost got into serious trouble