Back home from a lovely swim. Didn’t have time to process pics I took yesterday so am posting this pic I took while in Gozo for the Notte Gozitana week-end.
The Xaghra parish church is dedicated to the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, locally known as ‘Il-Vitorja’, (the Blessed Virgin Mary of Victories), as it was on Mary’s birthday - 8 September 1565 - that the Knights and the Maltese succeeded in overcoming a much larger Turkish army and free Malta and southern Europe from the Islamic onslaught.
The parish of Xaghra was established by Bishop Cocco-Palmeri on 28 April 1688. The present church, like many others, grew over and around an older building first recorded late in the seventeenth century. The foundation stone of the present structure was laid on 2 October 1815. It was consecrated on 26 May 1878 and was raised to Archipresbyteral status on 11 March 1893. The title of Basilica was conferred on the parish on 26 August 1967.
beautuiful shot! i wish that there were places like this in saskatchewan to take. you are lucky t have the oppourtunity to be in such a beautiful place:)
