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| Our Lady of Perpetual Help & St.Gregory the Great Parish Church Built around 1581. The site gained historical importance due to the annual traditional St.Gregory procession from the Matrix church in Rabat to a medieval chapel of this dedication on the 12th March. The chapel was however replaced by the present parish church in 1851 which was enlarged later on to its present state between 1906 and 1910. On the 10th March 1885 Bishop Pietru Pace made Kerchem a parish. It is the only church on this island with two dedications. It was traditionally dedicated to Pope St.Gregory, but since 17th August 1885, the church was additionally dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help. The village celebrates the two feasts without distinction. The titular picture by S.Busuttil shows the two dedications in a background of the 1813-14 plague. |
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| Our Lady of Perpetual Help & St.Gregory the Great | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumption ta' Korvel This old chapel at tal-Madliena, erected by a certain Andreotta Theobalda. was deconsecrated in 1575 by Mons.Dusina but was eventually restored. It probably collapsed during the first decade of the seventeenth century. Immaculate Conception tal-Warda Due to increasing devotion to the Immaculate Conception, another chapel was raised in her honour at tal-Qabbieza on the ruins of a former chapel known as tal-Warda. It was paid for by the cleric Simon Apap and it began functioning by September 1634. The chapel flourished until 1654. Our Lady of Carmel - Xlendi This church's front section dates back from 1868. In 1969 the church was enlarged by being elongated at the back and blessed in 1974. Now it is four times as large as it used to be. |
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| Our Lady of Perpetual help The Carmelite Nuns have a chapel of this dedication attached to their convent. |
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| Our Lady of Perpetual Help Carmelite nuns convent | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| St.Lucy Deconsecrated in 1544, in 1575 and again in 1657; totally rebuilt in the 1790's; from 1848 to 1851 it served as a vice-parish church. After being enlarged in 1950, on the 9th Nov 1952 it was consecrated again by Bishop Pace. It has paintings of the martyrdom of St.Lucy, work by G.Briffa. |
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