Pope to Visit Malta
Posted by Edward Pentin
Monday, September 14, 2009 2:43 PM
A lighted cross stands at the edge of the Grand Harbor in Valletta, Malta in March 2007. (CNS)
Pope Benedict XVI is planning to make an apostolic visit to Malta next April to commemorate 1,950 years since St. Paul’s shipwreck there, according to a press release issued by Malta’s bishops on Saturday.
The visit would be the third papal trip to the Mediterranean island nation, after Pope John Paul II’s visits in 1990 and 2001.
St. Paul was shipwrecked in the archipelago in the year 60,... READ MORE
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