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  • Thu 16/10/2025

    Order of Malta Art Exhibition

    Preparations are well underway for the forthcoming opening of the Order of Malta National Art Exhibition on 24 October, at St John’s Cavalier in Valletta. This prestigious event represents the largest exhibition of its kind in Malta, showcasing the work of 194 distinguished artists. Earlier this week, the metal structures were assembled and the lighting […]

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  • Mon 13/10/2025

    The Order of Malta at Your Fingertips: Download the Official App 

    On the occasion of the Feast of Blessed Gerard, founder and first Grand Master of the Sovereign Order of Malta, the Grand Magistry announces the launch of the new official Order of Malta App.  This initiative marks an important step in strengthening the identity and visibility of the Order, creating a closer connection with members, […]

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  • Sun 05/10/2025

    President Honoured by the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre

    During the annual Investiture Ceremony of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre, presided over by His Grace the Metropolitan Archbishop, Mgr. Charles J. Scicluna, in his capacity as Grand Prior of the Lieutenancy of the Maltese Islands, the President, Dr. Michael Grech, was awarded the Cross of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre […]

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  • Wed 24/09/2025

    Stage 2025

      On Saturday 20th September a group of Members and  Volunteers of the Maltese Association of the Order of Malta left for their Annual Stage in Lourdes.  This was the seventeenth consecutive Stage, only having missed one in 2020 due to Covid. There were fourteen attendees this year, a few of whom were only able […]

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  • Mon 22/09/2025

    Grand Cross of the Order pro Merito Melitensi

    At a ceremony held on Monday 22nd September, at the Magistral Palace in Rome, H.M.E.H. The Prince and Grand Master conferred the Grand Cross of the Order pro Merito Melitensi Motu Proprio on The Noble Marchesino Daniel de Petri Testaferrata, Emeritus President of the Association, in recognition of his many years of service to the […]

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  • Sun 21/09/2025

    Anniversary of Malta’s Independence

      The Maltese Association, led by its President, Dr Michael Grech, and members of the Council, attended a solemn High mass, celebrated at Saint John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta to celebrate the 61st Anniversary of Malta’s Independence.   Malta became independent from Great Britian on the 21st of September 1964. In June 1966, the first Ambassador […]

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  • Mon 08/09/2025

    The feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary – 8 September

    The Otto Settembre, as it was traditionally known in Malta, is a special day in the calendar of the Church and that of Malta. For the Church it is the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, a celebration taking place on his day as from the 6th century in the Eastern Church and […]

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  • Sun 07/09/2025

    7 September – Mass de Requiem

      For many years now, the Maltese Association, led by its President and Council, Knights, Dames and Aspirants attend a Mass de Requiem on the 7th of September to pray for the souls of those fallen during the Great Siege of 1565 and the Second World War.   The Siege of 1565, saw some 300 Knights […]

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  • Fri 05/09/2025

    First Friday Mass at Palazzo d’Aurel

    The First Friday Mass for the month of September was held at Palazzo d’Aurel, also known as Bettina Palace in Gudja, home of Baron Iginio Trapani Galea Feriol and his family. The Maltese Association, led by its President, Dr Michael Grech and Members of the Council, together with Members, and Aspirants wanted to give homage […]

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  • Tue 02/09/2025

    Letter from the President

    The following is the letter from HE Dr Michael Grech, President of the Maltese  Association of the Sovereign, Military, Hospitaller, Order of St John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, today marking the 60th Anniversary of its constitution. . .

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  • Mon 01/09/2025

    60th Anniversary of the Constitution Of The Maltese Association

    The commemoration of the 400th Anniversary of the Great Siege of Malta was held with important events taking place between the 4th and the 8th of September 1965. A good number of Knights came to Malta to join the Maltese members of the Order, which included a strong presence of Knights from the British Association of the Order, […]

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  • Fri 15/08/2025

    Demise of Fra Jean-Louis Mainguy

    Fra Jean-Louis Mainguy, 71, resident Knight of the Order of Malta at Fort St Angelo, returned to the house of the father, late in the evening of the 14 August. Born in Beirut in 1953, he became a member of the Order in 2007 and was the only Knight in Solemn Vows in the Order […]

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  • Sun 10/08/2025

    Maltacamp 2025

    Every summer, since 1984, the Order of Malta organises a joyful holiday camp, known as Maltacamp, for around 500 young people from 18 to 35 years old with disabilities and their volunteer helpers of 25 different countries in Europe and beyond. This year, between the 10th to the 17th August, the Netherlands will be hosting […]

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  • Sat 09/08/2025

    St John the Baptist Statue Restored

    The President, Dr Michael Grech, the Secretary General, Marchesino Josef Formosa Gauci, and Council Members Benoit Musy and Stephen Ellul Sullivan, represented the Council and the members of the Maltese Association at Mass followed by an event, to inaugurate the restoration of a late medieval statute of St. John the Baptist. The statute was brought […]

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  • Wed 02/07/2025

    St. Peter’s Dome and the Lion

        A silent and reverent tribute by the Order of Malta and the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art to the Pope who chose the name Leo XIV   Rome, 1 July 2025 – In the heart of the Aventine Hill, a majestic bronze lion by artist Davide Rivalta has been placed in the […]

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