1 comment.Dun Mikiel Attard…… kif baqa’ fil-qalb ta’ dawk li ltaqghu mieghu
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This publication of a new book – Dun Mikiel Attard…… kif baqa’ fil-qalb ta’ dawk li ltaqghu mieghu – contains a series of articles written by different people, all of whom knew Dun Mikiel closely or had worked with him.
The topics of the articles are as varied as the characters that shared their thoughts in this publication. Those who contributed are among others, Cardinal Mario Grech; priests; laypeople, as well as the young and the elderly.
This new publication is the initiative of the Office of the Postulation, to mark the 62nd Anniversary of the Presbyterate of the Servant of God Dun Mikiel Attard on the 12th of April. “We thank all those who contributed and helped see this publication come to fruition.”
Fr Mikiel Attard was a priest from the Diocese of Gozo. He died in 2004 after a long illness.
Fr. Mikiel was born in Nadur, Gozo, on the 1st of October 1933, the first of 12 siblings. He was the son of Coronato and Anna neè Tabone. His father used to work in Malta as a contractor and builder and he moved with his family to Hamrun, Fr. Mikiel spent his first 6 or 7 years living in Malta.
In 1940, after the second world war started, Coronato decided to return with his family to Nadur
He was ordained at the Gozo Cathedral on April 12, 1959. Fr. Michael was very devoted to Jesus in the Eucharist and to our Lady of Ta’ Pinu and to her he offered all his pastoral work.
On the 1st of August 2012 at Ta’ Pinu Sanctuary, in a Solemn Mass presided by the then Bishop of Gozo Mgr Mario Grech, right after the Rite of Introduction, Mgr Salv Debrincat, Chancellor of the Bishop’s Curia, read the edict which announced to the Catholic community that the diocesan process of the Beatification Cause of the Servant of God Fr Mikiel Attard was officially opened.
This Book is available in all the Parishes of Gozo and also in those of Malta, and at the Main Libraries, for a donation of € 7. It can also be purchased from the Postulation of Fr Mikiel in the Seminary, Tel: 21556479/21565703 email: postulation.dunmikiel@gmail.com
It is a book to be picked up and read. It was very interesting to read and very different from other biographies. Usually when one reads a book from cover to cover, one gets into the soul of the person through the soul of the writer. In this case there are various contributors, some more affable than others and this for me made the book ever more interesting.