INDEX Quintinus, Johannes, 116-117 Rabat (Gozo), 8 churches, 156-157, 206, 209 Ragusa, 41 Ramla il-Hamra, 16 Ras il-Wardija, 5-6, 53 Ras ir-Raħeb, 5-6 Rhodes, 34-35, 41 rice, 39-40 Rispolo, Zaccaria, 46-47 Rizo, Bernardino, 46, 48 Rohan, Grand Master Emmanuel de, 42 Rome, 9, 67, 69, 98, 167 presence in Malta, 10-16 ropemakers, 13 Roux, Joseph, 124 rowing regattas, 100-101, 161, 212 Royal Air Force, 80 Royal Fleet Auxiliary, 75-78 Royal Naval Division, 91 Royal Navy, 45, 71, 74-78, 80, 86-97, 166 attitudes towards Maltese 91-93 Maltese seamen employed by, 86, 88-91, 93 pensions, 90, 92 sailmakers, 16, 94 Salina, 16, 69, 125 salt, 16, 40, 68-70 saltpetre, 40 San Anton Palace, 130 San Baskel church, 206 San Blas chapel (Gozo), 133 San Cir church, 131, 206 San Franġisk chapel, 148-149 San Gejtan chapel, 150-151 San Liju, church, 206 San Luċjan tower, 185 San Pawl Milqi, 8, 11 chapel, 54 sardines, 40 Sardinia, 22, 25 Schranz dynasty, 105 Scylax of Caryanda, 115 Scylla, 5, 51 Sea Malta, 78, 85 sea shells, 105, 173-174, 201 sea urchins, 173, 201 Second World War, 76-77, 80, 90-91, 93, 103, 106, 179-180, 207 Selmun, 130 Sempronius, 10 shipwrights, 13, 94 Sicily, 7, 8-10, 12, 17, 26-27, 32, 33, 42, 69, 71, 117, 159, 169, 173, 209, 213 trade with Malta, 9, 21-25 silk, 40 skins, 40 Skorba, 173
slavery, 22, 25-26, 36-38, 53, 209, 215, 217 Sliema, 70, 84, 99-100, 102 churches, 208, 212-214 smiths, 12, 94 Smyrna, 40 Smyth, William Henry, 45, 47, 124-127 soap, 40 Spain, 22, 32, 41, 48, 71, 88, 98, 116 Speranza church, 215 speronara, 49, 55, 131, 209, 218 Spinola Bay, 198 chapel, 133, 142-143 sponges, 40 Spratt, Thomas Abel Brimage, 124-125, 128 St Andrew, 207 churches, 209 St Anne feast, 200-201 churches, 208 St Anthony of Padua, 202 church, 202 St Blaise chapel (Malta), 152-153 St Christopher, 209 St Demetrius (San Dimitri), 209 churches, 52, 208-209, 215, 219 legend of, 52, 215 St Elmo (St Erasmus), 212 fort, 98, 212 St Francis of Paola, 208-209 church, 209 St George (San Ziorzi) churches, 53, 209 St James Gate, 133 St John the Baptist, 204-206, 213 St John the Evangelist, 210-211, 215 church, 215 St Julian’s Bay, 198, 206 chapel, 133, 142-143 St Kerrew (Kurrew) legend of 52, 219 church, 206, 219 St Lawrence (San Lorenzo) church, 51, 53 St Maria churches, 53 St Matthew church, 218 St Paul, 11, 15, 50, 52, 54, 102, 106 churches, 53, 146-147, 218 Pauline cult, 52, 57 St Paul’s Bay, 124-125, 197, 210 church, 210 St Paul’s grotto, 43, 52 St Paul the first hermit…see St Kerrew St Philip Neri chapel, 140-141 St Thomas Bay chapel, 150-151 St Ursula legend of, 217 nuns of, 39 steel, 40 Stella Maris church, 212-214
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