President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca has attended mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, in Washington.
The President was accompanied by her husband, Mr Edgar Preca, as well as the Ambassador of Malta to the U.S. Pierre Clive Agius.
The Basilica has a Maltese connection, and the Mass was celebrated in Maltese, by Reverend Emanuel P. Magro, Assistant Professor of Catechetics within the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America.
Nestled in the Crypt Church of the Basilica is the dedicated Oratory of Our Lady of Ta’ Pinu, which features a beautiful mosaic reproduction of the original oil painting of the Assumption of Mary, that is in the Basilica of Ta’ Pinu in Gozo.
The President, is the first Maltese Head of State to visit Washington D.C.