The highly venerated reliquary holding St Laurence’s blood will be in Malta between today and Monday, for the first time.
The reliquary, based in Amaseno in the province of Frosinone in Italy, is popular because the solid clot of blood becomes liquid on the feast of St Laurence every August 10.
This unexplainable phenomenon was first registered in the 1600s and according to a document from 1177, the blood belongs to St Laurence.
The parishes of St Laurence in Gozo and Vittoriosa have issued a programme.
See http://sanlawrenz.org .