Kolleġġjata u Proto-Parroċċa ta' San Pawl
Baroque collegiate church built over the rock-cut grotto where tradition says Saint Paul lived.
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This guide to the Collegiate Church and Proto-Parish of St Paul in Valletta goes down to the rock-cut grotto beneath it, where tradition says the apostle lived after his shipwreck and where locals scrape the walls for stone said to heal. The question it raises is who has held the cave over the centuries, and you'll meet a Spanish hermit, the Knights of Saint John and a noblewoman who paid for the church above. Listen from the grotto itself, in front of the marble statue.
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