Welcome to Mosta. This town is pretty much in the center of Malta. This is a 17th century Catholic church. April 9th, 1942, a couple of months before D-Day, a bomb went through the center of the dome and landed in the middle of the service and did not go off. And they call it the Miracle of Malta. There were many. The Germans and the Italians dropped 15 ,000 tons of bombs on Malta. Very fascinating. We’re going to get to go inside. This church is the third largest unsupported dome in the world.
So much going on here. So much history. So we got a snake. The snake eating an apple. He was trying to steal your apple. That was the garden. A garden of Eden. What? Is it the garden? But I don’t believe it was an apple in thegarden.Nope. That’s right. I’ve convinced you. It was not. That’s right. Apples are like so-so. That wouldn’t convince me to like create the greatest sin that’s ever existed if they picked an apple. No. Not worth an apple.
Yeah, right. The only way people get other people to eat apples is if they bake them. I’m like maybe if it was apple pie. Yeah, exactly. But really, what do you think they would do if I did ring the bells? Because it’s really something. I wishI could tell you that with me ringing the bell right now. Beautiful construction in the 17th century as I said outside. This is the third largest dome in the world that’s unsupported from the center from all sides.
Obviously it’s supported from the outside walls. Guys, this is multi. It’s fascinating stuff. It’s obviously beautiful. It’s so immersive. You can enter in. You gotta like what century are we in? What millennia are we in? What era are we in? That’s the question I have to ask myself every time I get off the bus because I’ve seen so much history and it’s not one period.
A lot of countries are around one period of history. But Malta is like the whole world is surrounded by it. Imean, even have later on today we’re going to go to St. Paul’s Islands, which is in the New Testament and the Christian New Testament, the Bible. And there are stories of where Paul got shipwrecked, the Apostle Paul got shipwrecked on those particular islands. And so there’s so much history surrounding Malta, like every corner, which is awesome. Okay, so pro tip for the ladies. Don’t wear shorts. You gotta cover your knees apparently.
This is a replica of one of the two bombs that fell on April 9th through the dome. This is like almost the size of me. I kindof do like my color vibes match the vibes of this place. I like it.
I loved the colors in there. It was beautiful. It was really incredible to think like what it would have felt like to be in that church service and the bomb hits the face of Jesus and doesn’t detonate. Likethat make you a believer if anything did.
Alright, 1940 something years ago, the Apostle Paul was on his way to Rome. Making his way through here and sure enough they hit some low coral and the ship was wrecking. Statue of Liberty like little monument right there. That’s Apostle Paul. I canonly imagine they hit their crash and he wasn’t even planning to come here. And then they’re like, you’re going to have to swim Paul. You’re goingto have to swim.
He ended up spending 90 days here and then they were able to hop on another boat over to Rome. Nellie’s version in my own head mostly. The captain probably just wanted a little vacay, you know what I mean. The other big question I have is what did they do with their robes? So it would have been hard to swim with robes and I’m pretty sure people were robes at that point. I could be wrong.
I also just want to take this moment to highlight how crazy it is that back in the day if you wanted to travel the world shipwrecks were like pretty common. See he did get a break. He got some unusual kindness here. Honestly people in Malta are really nice.
So gorgeous. I can’t even. I mean I’d be like it looks like the Mediterranean in the south of France but that’s like. Just around the corner. SoI feel kind of silly saying that because it’s like well duh you just haven’t been here before. You didn’t know every place in the Mediterranean is this beautiful. Look at our town.