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This is the fifth lecture in the National Library of Malta Public Lectures Series 2023-2024, ‘Knowledge in the Making: Towards an Intellectual History of Early Modern Malta’. The series is organised in collaboration with the UM Department of Philosophy.

Jesuits lay heavy emphasis on the missions, that is their journeying for ministry. From the early days of the Company, their founder Ignatius of Loyola, insisted that Jesuits should follow the life of the Apostles, with a preference for preaching. This tendency emerges evidently in the ‘ministries of the Word’, manifested particularly in preaching and catechising, as an integral part of the Jesuit mission. Throughout their stay in Malta from the 1590s until their final expulsion in 1768, the Jesuits served as confessors and itinerant preachers who sought the conversion of sinners while doing their utmost to inculcate social and moral virtues through confessions and religious rites. Altogether, they proved to be a major driving force of the Catholic Reformation movement in Malta, as anywhere else in Europe.

Prof. Carmel Cassar is Professor of Cultural History and Director of the Institute of Maltese Studies at the University of Malta. Cassar was responsible for the cataloguing of large sections of the Cathedral archives particularly those pertaining to the Roman Inquisition and was later responsible for the Ethnography Section with the then Malta Museums Department. Cassar has published widely on Maltese and Mediterranean culture and history. His books include: A Concise History of Malta; Society, Culture and Identity in Early Modern Malta, and Daughters of Eve.

The National Library Public Lecture Series 2023-2024 is a collaboration between the National Library and the UM Department of Philosophy. The series is coordinated by Maroma Camilleri, Prof. Jean-Paul De Lucca and Mevrick Spiteri.

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