The double-page article in the last edition of The Sunday Times of Malta on the life of Archbishop Dom Maurus Caruana, OSB, lists his first Italian secular name as Luigi.

However, other sources give his Latin (and English?) name as Aloysius, which is nothing more than Luigi in Latin.

It is probable that when attending the English Jesuit college of St Ignatius in St Julian’s as a boarder, he was known as Aloysius Caruana.

His monastic name was changed to Maurus when he joined the Benedictine Order in his late adolescence. Dom Maurus was also known as Dom Mauro in pre-war Italian.

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