Be the first to comment!Jum Ghawdex to be commemorated with Independence Square ceremony
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This coming Monday morning, a ceremony will be held in Independence Square, Victoria, to mark the occasion of ‘Jum Ghawdex’ or Gozo Day – which falls on the 28th of October.
The ceremony will commemorate the 221st anniversary of the uprising of the Gozitans against the French, which was led by Archpriest Saver Cassar in 1798.
It will begin with a Mass at the Gozo Cathedral, which will be followed by the placing of wreaths at the monument of the Archpriest Saver Cassar on Independence Square.
The 28th of October has become known as ‘Jum Ghawdex’ or Gozo Day. This is to commemorate one of the most famous chapters in Gozo’s history . . . the capitulation of the French in Gozo on the 28th of October 1798, under the leadership of the Gozitan Archpriest Saverio Cassar. The French stay in Gozo lasted only 141 days!
