In a celebration held on Wednesday, Dcember 9 at St. John’s Co-Cathedral, the Church in Malta greeted and thanked the Lord for the gift of His Eminence Mons. Mario Grech who was created Cardinal in the consistory of November 28. The Prior Provincial Fr Leslie Gatt, represented the Maltese Province in the celebration.
His Eminence Mario Grech was in fact created Cardinal just a few months after the death of our brother the Maltese Cardinal Prospero Grech osa. As a gesture of remembrance and appreciation of his closeness to the Augustinians in Malta, as well as of the friendship between them, the Augustinian Province gave the new Cardinal the red cord which holds the pectoral cross that belonged to Cardinal Prospero Grech.
At the General Curia of the Augustinian Order, where the Cardinal is currently residing, the Prior General Fr. Alejandro Morál Antón osa presented the Maltese Cardinal with a silver pectoral cross with a relic of St. Augustine, accompanied by the certificate of authentication by the postulator general of the Order, fr. Josef Sciberras osa.
Cardinal Mario Grech was in fact granted affiliation to the Augustinian Order in the in the bicentennial year of the Province in 2017. Through this affiliation, granted by the Pirjol General, endowed with the authority required by the Holy See, Grech is considered one of the sons of the Order, and is a full member of the Augustinian Family. In a post on his Facebook profile a few days ago, Cardinal Grech expressed his gratitude to the Augustinian Order.
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