Mosta Off The Beaten Path

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Two huge statues of the Virgin Mary are placed in two closed niches on the sides of the entrance door.

These two richly decorated statues are used every year during the public manifestations in the occasion of Assumption of Our Lady feast on August 15.

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Situated in Santa Margerita area , there's two dolmen which date back to the Bronze Age Period in Malta (2500-700 B.C.). Each dolmen consists of two large boulders ( appx 12 feet x 5 feet wide)capped by a third lying on top of the other two forming a sort of ‘table’ construction. The dolmen was used for funerary purposes, as an urn with the ashes of the deceased would have been placed in the space formed by the three-stone structure. Please click on photo to see a detailed pic of both dolmen

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The chapel and cave are dedicated to Our Lady of Good Hope. A Legend says that a young maiden was one day tending her sheep with her siblings. The turkish pirates closed in on her and she instinctly ran for her life . As she was a bit weak and limping,she decided to hide in a cave and she prayed to Our Lady, who immediately intervened and had a spider weave its web over the opening of the cave. When the Turkish invaders chasing her arrived, they overlooked the cave as they thought the girl could not be hiding inside, as the web was intact and so they left. The maiden came out, and convinced of divine intervention in her escape, decided to build a chapel on top of this cave. The chapel was built in 1761 . The cave contains stone statues of the Archangel Michael, a kneeling maiden praying and the evangelists Luke and John.
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Situated in a natural cave in the side of Honey Vale (Wied il Ghasel), this chapel was erected at around 1656 . A legend says that, St Corrado lived in this cave . He used to scold the Mosta Villagers for not living an exemplary life. These advises fell on deaf ears and the locals wanted to rid themselves of Corrado. To do so, the villagers sent a lady with some clothes to hang. She was to drop the clothes intentionally, so if Corrado tries to give her a hand, he'll be blamed of 'harassment' and if he doesn't, then he's definately not a saintly man. Anyway, this poor man tried to help this lady and the hidden villagers showered him with stones . The hermit ran away towards the coast, spread his cape on the water and flew to Gozo. It was to no avail that the repentant villagers called him back. Thus in an exhibition of remorse the locals built this chapel.