Appreciation: Francis Formosa (1925-2023)
Anecdotes of a young centenarian
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Which of Malta’s governors was most eccentric? Let’s look at the governors’ list, which runs from 1813 to 1964. The first name up is Maitland,
Anthony Manduca pays tribute to some of the prominent Maltese people who died this year. Cardinal Prospero Grech, died on December 30, 2019, aged 94. The Augustinian scholar who became the second cardinal in Maltese history was one of 22 cardinals appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in February 2012. Once described as “possibly the most intelligent man alive” by English priest Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith in an article in the Catholic Herald, Cardinal Grech served as a professor at the Augustine Institute in Rome. In 1970, he co-founded the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum attached to the L...