The Maltese islands : islands of saints

Abstract

The glory of the Christian Church lies in the faithful who through their heroic lives have lived to be models for others. When Jesus Christ had founded His church He had left the Apostles two of whom are also Evangelists to spread the Message which he had initiated during his three year public life in Palestine. We know it for a historical fact that the Church of Malta has had its origins steeped in ecclesiastical history going back to the Apostolic period, thanks to St Paul, Apostle of the Mediterranean. Here follows a very brief account of the lives of the several Maltese and foreign Saints, Blessed and Venerables who have had direct or indirect connections with Christian Malta through the ages indeed from Apostolic times. Some historians do in fact refer to the Church of Malta as "The Apostolic See". It is a fact of History that the two Sees of Rome and of Malta do go back uninterruptedly to the times of the Apostles, the See of Rome having been founded by the Apostle Peter and that of Malta, then known as Melita, founded by the Apostle Paul. [excerpt]