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Title: Self portrait (2) : Karmenu Vassallo
Authors: Vassallo, Karmenu
Keywords: Vassallo, Karmenu, 1913-1987 -- Biography
Poets -- Malta
Issue Date: 1983
Publisher: Gulf Publishing Ltd.
Citation: Vassallo, K. (1983). Self portrait (2) : Karmenu Vassallo. Civilization, 7, 192-196.
Abstract: If my memory serves me right, before I began to attend the Government Primary School in September, 1922, I was taken ill and kept to my bed for some time. One of my first teachers was Miss Kolin Caruauna, who, besides teaching me at school, used to take me to her own house and teach me catechism or to pray with her in church. I shall always remember how impressed I was with the cleanliness that reigned in her house. There was also a certain heavenly atmosphere, which made me look on that woman as if she were a saint. She lived with her sister, also a spinster. I was really sorry when I learned that Aunt Rozanna had once reproached and upbraided Miss Caruana,. whom she blamed for my having spent one or more nights sleepless, mumbling and whimpering like a terrified child. What happened was this. A big crucifix hung near the altar dedicated to our Lady of Mt. Carmel in the village church, and before we left, Miss Caruana used to stop and pray with profound devotion explaining to me the great sufferings our Lord Jesus had to endure because of our sins. It seems that I was greatly impressed and that the big figure of the crucified Christ, together with the teacher's explanations, had Twenty four years old ... 192 had a great and cumulative effect on my frame of mind at the time.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/46814
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