St. Paul's Cathedral, Mdina
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The Cathedral of St. Paul is a cathedral in the city of Mdina, in Malta. It is built on the site where governor Publius was reported to have met St. Paul the Apostle following his shipwreck off the Maltese coast.[1]
[edit] History
Designed by the architect Lorenzo Gafa, it was built between 1697 and 1702 to replace a ruined Norman cathedral destroyed by the 1693 earthquake on Malta. Despite this, several artifacts and edifices survived including the Calabrian Mattia Preti painting depicting the conversion of St. Paul, a 15th century Tuscan painting of the Madonna and Child and frescoes in the apse which illustrate Paul's shipwreck. Many of the pieces of the cathedral including the baptisimal font and the portal are carved out of Irish wood.[1]
The cathedral also has a substantial arrayment of silver plates and coins and some carvings by the German artist Albert Dürer.
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