While the beatification process of the Servant of God, Mother Margherita, Foundress of the Franciscan Sisters of the Heart of Jesus, is waiting for a miracle, the Diocese of Gozo, through the initiative of Mgr Mario Grech, Diocesan Bishop, and with the approval of the superior general of the congregation of the mentioned sisters, is organising different celebrations to make Mother Margherita and its cause, known by the faithful.

I have been authorised to hold different celebrations in different churches of the Diocese so that this aim may be reached. After the celebration, on January 22, of the 58th anniversary of the foundress's death, with a solemn Mass at the mother house's church in Victoria. On February 5, I celebrated another Mass in the parish church of Kerċem commemorating the day she left her home in this village and accompanied by her father M'Angelo, proceeded to Għajn Qatet Street in Victoria where she was welcomed by Dun Gużepp Diacono and began her religious life (February 5, 1881).

On February 22, another Mass was celebrated at the St Francis church of Victoria, commemorated the holy clothing of Mother Margherita who as Mistress Virginia of the Blessed Margaret, began her novitiate in the newly created congregation in 1880. The next celebration to be held at the Qala parish church, on March 17 at 6 p.m., will commemorate the opening of the first house of Mother Margherita's congregation at Qala.

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