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Easter passion with a personal Jesus
Tony Ellul, as Pontius Pilate, takes time out from the grueling rehearsals Alan Fenech loves hard rock, he’s a football fanatic, and he works as a teacher, journalist and actor. But, once a year, for...
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Malta’s Rites of Spring
Walk with a spring in your stride at Ghajn Tuffieha and Golden Bay Spring in Malta is often quoted as being the best time of the year. But is very brief, and sometimes almost non-existent. I always say...
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A Passion for Plays & Pastries
Soul searching in an Easter passion play at the Carmelite Priory, Mdina The Carmelite Priory Museum in Mdina, a relatively recent, private museum for Malta, with a ‘pretty nice cafe’ attached, has been...
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Weather watch: April in Malta
Fresh white and spring clean: daisies, in full flower in April Finally, and suddenly, we can smell summer round the corner. But make the most of the fleeting spring warmth during April our weather man...
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Easter, time to ponder religious passions
In Penance or in gratitude? Each has his cross to bear. Here, Victor Calleja gets to grips with the fervour and fever of Malta’s various public, religious displays. Anthropologists, sociologists and...
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Easter’s not Easter without ‘World Figolli Day’
Down under, the tradition of Maltese Easter figolla making is getting a boost. Maltese-descent Australian, Nanette Johnson, aka Ms Gourmet of foodie blog gourmetworrier fame, came up a couple of years...
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The dawning of a new age? Has spring finally sprung? Given the sight of bikini-clad swimmers at Golden Bay last Sunday, election results’ day, we might think we’d lurched straight into summer instead,...
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Easter in Malta: a quick guide to Holy Week
Easter in Malta seems far busier in the religious calendar than Christmas for its sheer organisation alone. We’ve street processions, pageants, tableaux, displays, bell ringing, band marches, statue...
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Easter in Malta, a photographic prelude
As a prelude to the Easter weekend and its considerable street festivities and events, we’re posting up some evocative photos taken a week ago at the official start to Easter: Our Lady of Sorrows day....
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