The Governemnt has announced that the state funeral of formePrime Minister Dom Mintoff will be held this coming Saturday, the 25th of August, at St John’s Co-Cathedral at 10.30am
Mass praesente cadavere will be celebrated by Archbishop Pawlu Cremona.
Dom Mintoff will lie in state at the President’s Palace in Valletta on Friday, from 9.00am to 1.00pm and from 4.00pm to 7.00pm and on Saturday morning from 7.30am until 9.30am.
The Government has declared Friday, the 24th of August and Saturday, the 25th of August as Days of National Mourning.
More details will be announced over the coming days.
1 Comment To "State funeral on Saturday with 2 days of national mourning"
#1 Comment By Carmel Camilleri On August 23, 2012 @ 10:38 am
MINTOFF’S FATHER WENZU WAS FROM GHASRI GOZO .
In the biography of the ex President of Malta Censu Tabone who’s born in Gozo were written these exact words ,’ Tabone and Mintoff sit on opposite sides of the House for the best part of half a century the two eldest, outstanding politicians for the 20th century who have made it into the new millemium. Ironically Tabone, like Mintoff, had a father from Gozo and a mother from Cospicua. Censu’s father Kolinu hailed from Victoria Gozo, whereas Mintoff‘s father Wenzu was from the small village of Ghasri Gozo’.
R.I.P. PERIT