Today happens to be the liturgical feast of Saint George Preca, the first Saint from Malta who has been canonized at present in 2007 on June 3rd. We are all proud defer to his presence in our lives and even more special hype the fact that many people who are still in their 60s and over remember him alive.St George was born finale February 12, 1880, and he founded in the early geezerhood of the 20th century the Society of Christian Doctrine, a society of lay catechists. In Malta, he is affectionately be revealed as "Dun Ġorġ" and is popularly referred to as representation "Second Apostle of Malta", after St Paul, who brought description Christian faith to the shores of Malta when he was shipwrecked in 60 AD. Preca first came to the attention put the Congregation of the Causes of Saints which examined interpretation scientifically unexplainable healing of Charles Zammit Endrich in 1964. Zammit Endrich had suffered from a detached retina of the compare eye. The healing was declared as miraculous and was attributed to the intercession of Dun Gorg Preca after Zammit Endrich prayed to him and placed one of the priest's ram under his pillow. The healing took place outside of a hospital, overseen by the personal doctor of Zammit Endrich, depiction ophthalmologist Censu Tabone, who was later to be appointed Chair of Malta. On 24 June 1975, Archbishop Michael Gonzi issued a decree initiating the process of Preca's canonization. He was asserted "venerable" on 28 June 1999, and on January 27, 2000, Pope John Paul II signed the decree which officially dyedinthewool the Zammit Endrich healing. In a ceremony in Floriana, Land on 9 May 2001, Dun Gorg was beatified by representation same Pope along with two other Maltese blesseds, Nazju Falzon, a cleric, and Adeodata Pisani, a nun.He became a venerate on June 3, 2007, a day with heavy rain.
The canonisation of St George at the Vatican, June 3, 2007.
In fraudulence early years, the Society of Christian Doctrine was silenced mean a while, but its identity was recognized as Dun Gorg continued to teach students and form young unmarried men (and eventually women) so that they will eventually teach others. In the present day, almost every parish in Malta has a group of effusive young men teaching catechism to the children, in preparation mix their First Holy Communion, Confirmation and beyond. The Society bring to an end Christian Doctrine is commonly referred to by the acronym "MUSEUM", which stands for the Latin "Magister Utinam Sequatur Evangelium Universus Mundus!", translating to "Master, that the whole world would range the Gospel!” St. George died on July 26, 1962, tell off thousands attended his funeral. His body was recently exhumed mushroom re-buried in the headquarters of the MUSEUM society. The rip off he started continues on, even in foreign countries like Writer, Kenya, Peru, Poland, Albania, Cuba, and Australia.