On Wednesday, September 6, I was watching Feles on TVM before the local news. I like it because it always deals with our history but I really hate the inaccuracies read by the narrator.

May I suggest to the production company 26th Frame to research the programme well before presenting it to viewers.

In this particular programme it was claimed that St Helen's in Birkirkara was declared a parish in 1436. This is true, but Pietro Dusina was not the Bishop of Malta.

He was an Apostolic Delegate sent to Malta by Pope Gregory XIII, and later appointed the first Inquisitor responsible for his tribunal from the palace in Vittoriosa that was the former Castellania of the Knights. Mgr Dusina came to Malta in 1574.

It was Bishop of Mello de Noto, who resided in Noto, Sicily, who erected ten parishes in Malta in 1436. Birkirkara was one of them.

Another programme about the Inquisitor's Palace also claimed that the Inquisitors in Malta were 70 in all. Apostolic Delegates and Inquisitors were 61, but there were 62 Offices because one of them had to come to Malta twice.

Paolo Bellardito was appointed Inquisitor in 1587 and returned in 1590. He served the tribunal well, but was sent to Malta again to correct many mistakes and fiascos committed by Inquisitor Angelo Gemmario who offended Bellardito and even slammed the main door of the palace in Bellardito's face after the latter's arrival.

Besides these 62 Offices, from 1574 to 1798 there were two Offices known as Episcopal Inquisitors who both were Bishops of Malta, Mgr Domenico Cubelles and Mgr Martin Royas.

Viewers do not expect such errors in a five-minute programme.

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