Bishop Charles J. Scicluna visits Sacred Heart school

On Friday, 24th October, His Excellency Mons. Charles Scicluna celebrated a special mass at the Sacred Heart College in St. Julian’s. A good number of priests connecated with the school concelebrated with the Bishop. The Society of the Sacred Heart had been running this school since 1903, but passed it over to the Archdioce on 23rd July of this year. For the celebration there was the full participation of all the students, teachers, other workers and collaborators, the members of the Board of Governers and of the PTA, as well as a number of religious of the Sacred Heart. In her welcoming speech, the Chairperson of the Board of Governors, Ms. Joyce Pullicino, thanked the Society for the hundred and eleven years of education to thousands of students who attended this school, as well as for the training of a great number of female teachers from 1944 to 1973 at the Mater Admirabilis Training College run by the same Society.

Photos by the staff of Sacred Heart school