On almost every issue of The Times in recent weeks one could read some suggestion or other about providing a suitable place in which the precious and unique Flemish tapestries of St John's Co-Cathedral could be displayed for the enjoyment of tourists and some few privileged Maltese admirers.

Hence, my simple question: Why don't we hang them again where they belong, along the main nave of St John's where they were intended to be by their original creators? In that way not only some privileged tourists would have the possibility of admiring them but every Maltese Tom, Dick and Harry, most of whom, as things stand now, are earning their daily bread during the hours when they are open for tourists, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.?

The reason that was being given years ago was that the fumes emanating from the many candles in the cathedral were detrimental to the invaluable tapestries. But this is no longer the case today as all wax candles have now been replaced by electric ones. Whatever the Co-Cathedral Foundation ultimately decides to do, "hands off" please from desecrating the burial places in the yard facing Merchants Street.

When blessing that yard recently, Archbishop Paul Cremona reminded one and all that "that yard is not just a receptacle of bones but a living testimony of the Maltese collective historic and religious heritage" (September 8).