Fr Guardian Joe Caruana is seen here announcing the return of a chalice – belonging to Mgr George Bugeja, OFM, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli and Apostolic Administrator of Benghazi, Libya – and a reliquary of St Anthony, which went missing from Ta’ Ġieżu church, dedicated to St Anthony of Padua, in Għajnsielem.

Fr Caruana made the announcement of the return of the sacred items last Sunday at the end of a pontifical Mass to mark the feast of St Anthony, in the presence of Bishops Mario Grech and George Bugeja, as well as Gozo Minister Justyne Caruana. The theft was discovered by Mgr Bugeja himself when he was about to celebrate Mass and found that the silver chalice was missing from the sacristy.

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