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St. Lawrence Collegiate Church: HMML Repository

St. Lawrence Collegiate Church

Microfilms of the records of the baptisms, confirmations, marriages and deaths of St. Lawrence Collegiate Church, Birgu, Malta, 1538-1876, and digitized records of the of the Santo Uffizio Cartolaro, part of the Archives of the Inquisition in Malta.


Collection
Malta
Country
Malta
City
Birgu
Repository
St. Lawrence Collegiate Church
Project Codes
APVAIM, Malta Series I
Project Numbers
APVAIM 00001-APVAIM 00007; Microfilm nonsequential
Type
Digital/Microform
Objects Preserved
37
Active Catalog Records
37
Digital Surrogates
17
Microfilm Reels
20
Date Preserved
1975, 1984, 2015
HMML Reading Room (first record)
https://www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/501000
HMML Authority File
https://haf.vhmml.org/organization/795869769834
Languages
Latin, Italian
Related Collections
NAMOSI; AIMPR
Bibliography

Malta Parish Archives Project

William Zammit, “Records of the Roman Inquisition in Malta in the Vittoriosa Collegiate Archive,” In Scientia et religion: Studies in memory of Fr. George Aquilina OFM (1939-2012). Scholar, Archivist and Franciscan Friar (2014), 55-68.

Preservation Status
Complete
Cataloging Status
In progress
Legacy Catalog
Yes

Records of the baptisms, confirmations, marriages and deaths of St. Lawrence Collegiate Church, Birgu, Malta, 1538-1876. Records include lists of priests and notes about the plague of 1676.

Birgu (Vittoriosa) is one of the oldest parishes in Malta. St. Lawrence Church was built between 1681 and 1679, and was consecrated in 1723.

Digitized volumes of the Santo Uffizio Cartolaro consisting of 17 volumes dating from ca. 1553 to 1801. Documents consist mostly of civil proceedings of the Roman Inquisition in Malta. The records also include criminal proceedings, correspondence between the Congregation of the Holy Office in Rome and the Inquisitor of Malta, and other miscellaneous materials.

The Santo Uffizio Cartolaro are separated records from the main Archives of the Inquisition of Malta, now located primarily in the Cathedral Archives of Mdina, possibly gathered by the last Inquisitorial Assessor, Giovanni Battista Gatt, or the last Inquisitorial Chancellor, Ignazio Debono, after the Archives partial disperal resulting from the French occupation of Malta in June, 1798.

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