Did you know? This Bormla church is dedicated to St Paul because he left for Rome from there
Its origins date back to 1590.
Only three days ago, on the 10th February, Malta celebrated the feast of St Paul and commemorated the day the saint was shipwrecked here in Malta and brought Christianity to the island.
As rightly pointed out by Matthew Tonna Gilford on social media, everyone mentions St Paul’s arrival to the islands, but nobody mentions how he left.
When going through Bormla you might have noticed this church. It is dedicated to St Paul because it is said that the saint left from Malta to Rome from the harbour nearby in Bormla. Thus, a chapel was built in his honour.
Once there was even a statue of St Paul in the corner but it was unfortunately destroyed during World War II.
The church celebrates the feast of St Paul every year on the 25th January.
It dates all the way back to 1590 but it was abandoned. Nonetheless the church we know of today started being built on top of it in 1735.