St Paul's Island (Maltese: Il-G? ejjer ta 'San Pawl ), also known as Selmunett , is a small island near Selmun near the northeast of Malta's main island. The island of St. Paul is sometimes divided into two islands by shallow terrain, and is therefore sometimes referred to in the plural as St Paul's Islands . St. Lucia Island Paul was uninhabited since World War II, and is the second largest uninhabited island of Malta, with an area of ​​0.1 square kilometers (0.04 square miles).
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History
The Acts of the Apostles tells the story of how Paul the Apostle was stranded on an island that some scholars identified as Malta while en route to Rome to face charges. Traditionally, St. Paul's Bay and St. Paul's Island are identified as the location for this shipwreck.
Up to 1575 the islands were named after the Salomone family, which had land nearby in Mellieha also called Selmun; the islands were named on the map as Isola Salomone and Isola Salomonetto and interpreted by the Maltese as Selmun and Selmunett >. On other maps the islands are referred to as Selmun's Islands and The Scroll of Selmun . In 1576, Marco di Maria was pursued by Barbary corset off the coast of Malta. He navigates his ship through a narrow channel between St Paul's Island and Malta, but when the pirates follow him they are stranded and arrested. As a result, Grandmaster Jean de la CassiÃÆ'¨re gave St. Paul's Islands to Mary and the islands were called Tal-Barba Marku .
After Marco's death, as determined by the Grand Master, the island was passed on to his family. First go to his son Giovanni de Maria and then to Marco's nephew who is the son of Giavanni, named Narduccio de Maria. Narduccio lost his life in a sea battle in the war against the Ottomans. The island was later transferred to Religion, as belonging to the Order. Some time after 1649 a tower was built on the island by Grand Master Giovanni Paolo Lascaris. The tower is part of the contract, to exchange the island with Casa della Giornata (now the site of the Royal Opera House) in Valletta belonging to Michel de Torellas, Prior of Catalonia.
In 1844 a prominent statue of Saint Paul was erected on the island. It was carved by Segismondo Dimech from Valletta and Salvatore Dimech from Lija. The statue was officially inaugurated and blessed on 21 September 1845. The statue was restored by Din l-Art? Elwa several times, first in 1996, then in 2007, in 2014, and 2015.
Until the 1930s, a farmer named Vincenzo Borg, dubbed Ta 'Bajdafin , lived on the island in a tower built by Grandmaster Lascaris. He repented and used it as a farmhouse. Borg left his residence, and the fields on the island, just before World War II began. The tower is a three-chambered structure with a wall that weighs at a lower level. Built similar to other Lascaris towers. Abandoned, the upper chamber has collapsed and its structure is now ruined.
Pope John Paul II visited the island by boat during his visit to Malta in 1990. That same year, a statue named Kristu tal-Ba'ara was drowned near St Island. Paul. After 10 years, the statue was moved from St. Paul's Bay to Qawra point due to the worsening visibility in the water and the decline of divers who visit the site.
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Geography
Saint Paul Islands is located about 80 meters off the coast of Mellie? A, Malta. The island can be divided into two islands by shallow islands according to sea level, and when they divide larger islands in the west are known as Saint Paul Island while the smaller ones in the east are known as Quartz Island . Both islands are made of coralline upper limestone.
Views of Saint Paul Island is a maritime garigue dominated by Golden samphire, Maltese fleabane, and other species. Quartz island is more open and has less vegetation than the main island.
The population of the ground snail Trochoidea spratti can be found on the islands. Wild rabbits usually live on the island but the population died from disease. A subspecies of the Maltese wall lizard known as Podolcis filfolensis kieselbachi also lives there but the population appears to be extinct in 2005.
References
External links
- St. Lucia Island Photos Paul on Malta Vista.net
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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