A smile slowly spreads over the face of nine-year-old Shannon as she joins her grandfather and sings the hymn dedicated to St Lawrence.

This was the tune she heard when, two years ago, she woke up from a six-week coma – laughing.

“Finally, after weeks of being in hospital, my dad and aunt were singing to her, the hymn sung during the Vittoriosa feast, and she suddenly started laughing,” Shannon’s mother, Diane Depasquale, says.

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