This weeks 16th of June 2012 edition of The Maltese Herald Gozo section is now available for download by clicking here [1]
Previous editions are also available by clicking on this link [2].
This weeks article in the PDF download is:
Gieh il-Belt Victoria 2012
Victoria council presented the Gieh il-Belt Victoria award to a number of Gozitan missionaries as part of the activities marking Victoria Day, which this year also happens to mark the 125th anniversary of the city.
The presentation, by Victoria mayor Dr Samuel Azzopardi, took place at the Public Library in Victoria.
On the list were Dun Gorg Grima, founder of the Gesu fil-Proxxmu missionary movement, Augustinian Fr Adeodat Schembri, who works in Brazil, Guatemala missionary Fr Anton Grech, Fr George Attard, OFM Conv., who used to work in India, Augustinian Fr Peter Paul Cachia, who works in Algeria, Sister Josepha Gauci of the Fransiscans of the Heart of Jesus who worked in Ethopia, Australia and now in Nairobi, Sister Marcellina Tabone, who worked in Pakistan where she was murdered in 1997, Sister Victoria Muscat of the Sisters of Mother Teresa, who worked in the UK, Australia and the Philippines and now in Rome, Bro Mario Zammit of the Freres, who besides Malta, has worked in Nigeria, Pakistan Indonesia and now in Thailand and Jesuit Fr Joseph Mizzi, who worked in Eygpt for several years.
Violinists Pierre Louis and Jean Attard, accompanied on the piano by their father Mro.Colin, took part.
Photographs by Charles Spiteri.