And when we had escaped, then we knew that the Island was called Melita . all that had diseases

in the island came and were cured. Acts ch. xxviii
Malta, which for the past six months has been celebrating in a minor key the 1900th anniversary of St. Paul's shipwreck and stay on the Island, enters on July 10 into two weeks of special celebrations to which at least 50 bishops will travel from other countries.
On July 20, the British Destroyer "Surprise" will take the Papal Legate, Cardinal Muench, from Naples to Malta where he will be greeted with a 19-gun salute and the pealing of the Island's church bells.
The Cardinal will take with him a relic of St. Paul, part of the chain which bound him when in prison.
Cardinal Godfrey will be arriving by air from Rome on the same day. He will leave for Rome on July 15 and return from Malta on July 25.
The following day (Thursday) the Legate will go in procession to the ancient capital, Mdina, and from the Cathedral there will accompany Knights of Malta to St. Paul's church at Rabat (above) on the site of the grotto where St. Paul lived during his three-month stay on Malta. The Knights will carry a votive lamp which is to be lit and which will burn perpetually before a statue of the Saint.
On July 24, after a number of Pontifical Masses in the open air, pageants, firework displays, the ceremonies will end. On this day the Papal Legate will preside and the Holy Father will broadcast a message.
The All-Night Vigil group from England, spending July 11-15 in Malta, and who are to keep Vigil in St. Paul's Grotto, will attend Mass celebrated by Archbishop Gonzi in the church of St. Paul's Shipwreck. Miss Mabel Strickland, sister of Mrs. Henrietta Bower who organises the Vigils, is arranging to show the pilgrims over the island and has invited them to lunch. A few 'plane seats are still available.
With them the pilgrims will take petitions to be placed at one of the shrines of St. Paul.
The B.B.C. is sending a producer to Malta shortly to gather material for a programme for a Home Service programme to be broadcast in September and which among recordings will include the arrival of the Papal Legate on July 20.