281 Records From The Archive Of The Confraternity Of Charity In Valletta, Malta, Have Been Added To vHMML Reading Room.

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Archives of the Confraternity of Charity

281 records from the Archive of the Confraternity of Charity in Valletta, Malta, have been added to vHMML Reading Room.

Posted: 2019-12-31

281 records from the Archive of the Confraternity of Charity in Valletta, Malta, have been added to vHMML Reading Room. The Confraternity of Charity was founded in 1610, and is associated with the Church of Saint Paul's Shipwreck Church in Valletta. Records within the archives detail the confraternity's activities, including local ministry to the poor, financial support for those who could not bury their dead, marriage dowries for the poor, the ransoming of slaves, endowments to support charity, and the construction of oratories and patronage of art works of Catholic devotion. View now

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