George Preca«Ġorġ Preca / George Franco Preca / Dun Ġorġ Preca»

(1880–1962)

Founder, Priest

Orders/Societies Associated with: Lay Carmelites^*; Society of Christian Doctrine [MUSEUM]^**

Place of birth:Crown Colony of the Island of Malta and its Dependencies^†

Place of death:Crown Colony of the Island of Malta and its Dependencies

Feastday

9 May

Beatification

09/05/2001 by Ioannes Paulus II

Canonisation

03/06/2007 by Benedictus XVI

Patronage

Patron of:Hamrun^††; Malta^†††; Swatar^††††

Patron of:catechists, Society of Christian Doctrine / Soċjetà Duttrina Nisranija / Societas Doctrinæ Christianæ / Società della Dottrina Cristiana (MUSEUM)

^*Third Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel / Ordo Tertius Beatissimae Mariae Virginis de Monte Carmelo [1452]

^**Soċjetà Duttrina Nisranija / Societas Doctrinæ Christianæ / Società della Dottrina Cristiana [1907]

^†Colonia dell'Isola di Malta e sue Dipendenze / Kolonja tal-Gżira ta' Malta u l-Gżejjer li jagħmlu Magħha [1813–1964]

^††Il-Ħamrun / Casal San Giuseppe

^†††Μελίτη / Melita / مالطا

^††††Is-Swatar / Tas-Swatar

Saints

This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.

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Sources

Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:

D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.

Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.

Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.

Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990

and the following websites:

Saints.SQPN.com

Santi, beati e testimoni - Enciclopedia dei Santi

Santi e beati della Toscana

eCatholicHub Catholic Saints Database

The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee

Martyrologium Romanum - Index Generalis

www.synaxaristis - ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ

Onomasticon Goedelicum locorum et tribuum Hiberniae et Scotiae (An index, with identifications, to the Gaelic names of places and tribes)

Prosopography of Anglo Saxon England: Database Home

focal.ie - Dictionary of Irish Terms - Foclóir Téarmaíochta

logainm.ie - Bunachar Logainmneacha na hÉireann - Placenames Database of Ireland

Bosworth–Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia