Dominican missionary's body flown back to Malta

The body of Fr Gwann Frendo, the Dominican missionary who died suddenly in Albania on Thursday, was flown to Malta yesterday morning and was taken in a cortege to the Dominican Convent in Rabat to enable the public to pay their last respects.

Fr Frendo had been described by Mgr Rok Mirdita, the Archbishop of Dürres-Tirana, as a "missionary with remarkable energy and zeal".

The public can also pay their respects between 8 a.m. and noon and 4 and 8 p.m. today and between 8 a.m. and noon tomorrow.

The funeral is being held tomorrow at 2.15 p.m., when a cortege leaves for St Dominic's church, where Mass praesente cadavere will be said.

Fr Frendo is to be buried at Santa Maria Addolorata Cemetery.

Mass praesente cadavere was held in Dürres on Friday morning. The congregation included nuns with whom he worked and taught, poor people from surrounding villages, his vicar and brother Fr George Frendo, OP, three bishops and 39 missionary priests working in Albania.

Rabat council announced that following the death of Fr Frendo, the Epiphany concert by L'Isle Adam Band which was scheduled for today at the Dominican church in Rabat is being held at St Mark's church of the Augustinian Friars in Rabat today at 7 p.m. Entrance is free.