SEAT OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MALTA
St. Paul’s Cathedral in Mdina is the seat of the Archbishop of Malta. I took Max, who was with Christine and me on the day, inside the cathedral to have a quick look but their a mass going on and I was shied a bit to take a picture – just one when otherwise I would have taken many.
The cathedral was founded in the 12th century, and according to tradition it stands on the site of where Roman governor Publius met St. Paul following his shipwreck on Malta. The original cathedral was severely damaged in the 1693 Sicily earthquake which caused a lot of damage also in Malta, so it was dismantled and rebuilt in the Baroque style to a design of the Maltese architect Lorenzo Gafà between 1696 and 1705. The cathedral is regarded as Gafà's masterpiece – source ‘Wikipedia’..
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