A well-attended Mass was concelebrated by Gozo Bishop Mario Grech at the national sanctuary of Our Lady of Ta’ Pinu on Friday. President Emeritus Eddie Fenech Adami and his family attended this fitting tribute to a wife and First Lady of a great statesman.

“Both of you must have eternal patience with one another.” Words of wisdom said to my wife and me by Mary Fenech Adami on our wedding day just about a decade ago. Words engraved onto our hearts and followed by both ever since.

Then, Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami was one of our witnesses to our marriage at Żebbuġ parish in Gozo and Mary accompanied him. She only told us those words with her usual smile, honesty and humility but they meant the world to us.

That phrase encapsulates not only how our lives should be but also how her life was. Being the wife of a Leader of the Opposition in dangerous times, to say the least, then wife of the longest-serving Prime Minister in our history and, finally, First Lady to the President is life-long service to our nation.

The country was fortunate to have such a great couple as Dr Fenech Adami and his wife at such a momentous period in our history. She, like he, gave a great service to this country. O Lord, may she rest in peace.

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