The chapel of Santa Marta, in Tal-Ghonq, Victoria, will be open over the weekend of Notte Gozitana. On Saturday the 4th and Sunday the 5th of June the chapel will remain open from 8am until late in the evening.

The chapel was built in 1866 by the merchant Felice Attard from Victoria and his wife Rosina nee’ Bajada as an ex-voto for the deliverance from cholera. Portraits of the benefactors are found at the Cathedral Museum.

The main altarpiece was painted by Pawlu Cuschieri in 1867 and shows St. Martha praying for the souls in purgatory.

The church also has a statue of St. Martha. The chapel is situated in front of a cemetery called Tal-Infetti where people who died from cholera were buried. In 1868 a statue of Our Lady of Graces was raised on a plinth to the left of the chapel but this was later moved to a the nearby Conservatory of St. Peter and St. Paul. The plinth, with a bas-relief of the souls in purgatory, still stands in its original location.

A video of the chapel is available on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TeB_V7KbjE

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