The Chapel of St Bartholomew is a Baroque

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chapel located in

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History

The original chapel of St Bartholomew was built in the year 1482. It was one of the churches which the apostolic administrator inquisitor

Pietro Dusina Pietro Dusina was an Italian Roman Catholic priest from Brescia who was the inquisitor and apostolic delegate to Malta between 1574 and 1575. Dusina was nominated inquisitor of Malta by Pope Gregory XIII on 3 July 1574, and he arrived on the isl ...

visited during his apostolic visit in 1575. Dusina reported that the church was in very good state and was equipped with all necessary things to function as a church however it lacked a rector and an income. The feast of St Bartholomew was celebrated every year with vespers and a mass, with expenses paid by Mikiel Magion. However the chapel was abandoned and by the year 1658, the Bishop of Malta

Miguel Juan Balaguer Camarasa Miguel Juan Balaguer de Camarasa also known as Miguel Balaguer or Michele Balaguer (1597 – 5 December 1663) was a Spanish Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Malta from 1635 to 1663. Biography Miguel Juan Balaguer Camarasa was born ...

deconsecrated the chapel and ordered it closed. A new church was built instead of the old one in 1775 and was blessed by the parish priest of

Reverend Ġużepp Agius on January 11, 1784."Restoration Of Zurrieq chapel in final phase"
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Bartholomew's Chapel, Żurrieq 18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Malta Roman Catholic chapels in Żurrieq National Inventory of the Cultural Property of the Maltese Islands