https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/45148 Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:55:46 GMT 2026-04-09T04:55:46Z https://www.um.edu.mt:443/library/oar/retrieve/66d49adf-8b94-4caa-9d9b-ea040436a089/Pic.jpg https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/45148 https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/45295 Title: The date of the skeletal remains at Żejtun Authors: Buhagiar, Mario Abstract: What is now known of the circumstances of the successive discoveries of the bones in St. Gregory's church at Żejtun in 1896, in 1909 and finally in 1969 depends on the accounts of the sacristan Mr. John Mary Debono, on the published article and photograph of the discovery, and on subsequent writings. The precise arrangement of the bones, which apparently had already been disturbed before 1969, and of the blocking up of the walls cannot now be reconstructed. Recent investigations show that there were bones from over 87 individuals but only some 36 or more skulls and a few fingers; there were also some animal bones.3 These observations make it evident that theories involving individuals taking refuge from a Turkish raid by rushing into a place of refuge, the hiding away of plague corpses and so forth, are all out of the question, and that existing interpretations should now be discarded. Mon, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/45295 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/45289 Title: Notes on San Pawl Milqi Authors: Blagg, T. F. C.; Luttrell, Anthony T. Abstract: The modem church at San Pawl Milqi was apparently constructed soon after 1647 at which date it was still unknown to the historian Gian Francesco Abela and his contemporaries, and it is not documented with any form of the name Milqi before 1673. The idea that it was built by Grand Master Alof de Wignacourt, that is before 1622, derives from a misinterpretation of a passage in Abela concerning the church of St. Paul a Mare built by Wignacourt at Buġibba in St. Paul's Bay. Description: This document contains the text of back cover. Mon, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/45289 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/45271 Title: Analysis of an arch in the Annunciation church at Ħal Millieri Authors: Buhagiar, P.; Camilleri, A.; Theuma, S. Abstract: The arch analysed, that closest to the door at the west end, was assumed to be representative of the rest of the arches in the chapel, even though a glance at the interior shows that no two arches are exactly the same. Any conclusion applicable to this arch is assumed to apply also to the rest of the arches despite quite appreciable variations from this norm. The arch, the wall thicknesses, the heights, the ceiling and so on were measured to an accuracy compatible with the scope and precision of the exercise, and although the arch was found to be slightly asymmetrical about its vertical centre-line, this was ignored in the calculations as the error involved is minimal. In such masonry arches, where the discontinuity of the elements introduces highly variable friction, it is difficult to visualise any of the forces at the contact faces, whether inside the arch or between the arch and the buttress wall. Description: *This is a revised version of an article already published as "Architecture at Ħal Millieri Chapel," Arkitettura w Ambjent, ii no. 1 (1980). The authors, who are members of the Department of Architecture and Engineering of the University of Malta, wish to thank Dr. Miroslav Tochacek and Mr. Alex Torpiano, Lecturers in the Department, for their assistance and advice; Professor Karol Kaldarar, Head of the Department, most kindly encouraged this work. Mon, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/45271 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/45266 Title: Burials in Maltese churches : 1419-1530/40 * Authors: Wettinger, Godfrey Abstract: The report made in 1575 by Pietro Dusina, the Apostolic Visitor to the Maltese diocese charged with the task of rooting out a number of abuses and defects, might suggest that the private ownership of graves in the Maltese churches, so common a phenomenon until burial in churches was stopped in the course of the last century, had not started before the year 1575. In fact, Dusina reported several times that the dead were buried in earth instead of in proper graves. Even for the cathedral at Mdina he had to leave instructions for this "impiety" to stop. However ample evidence survives in other sources to show that some graves existed much before 1575 and were also owned privately and used as family graves despite the custom of burial in common earth. Description: * First published in Hyphen [Malta], iv (1984), 39-45: reprinted here with a few minor emendations. Mon, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/45266 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z