St Paul of the Shipwreck Church
Baroque parish church holding a wrist-bone relic and a gilded wooden saint paraded each February.
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This audio guide to St Paul of the Shipwreck Church in Valletta follows the feast of the tenth of February, when brass bands fill Republic Street and a wooden saint goes out on the shoulders of the faithful. It reaches back to a prisoner washed up on Malta, a viper, and islanders waiting to see whether he would die. Along the way you meet a seventeenth-century sculptor and the relics believers come here to be near. Best heard just inside the door, facing the nave.
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