Fontana parish will celebrate the feast of St Andrew, on Sunday. Days of triduum will start tomorrow. Mgr Edward Zammit will celebrate High Mass on Sunday, at 3.45pm, followed by the procession with the relic and statue of St Andrew, accompanied by Santa Margerita Band of Sannat. Prayers for peace between Russia and Ukraine will be said. The festivities will be concluded with another High Mass on Wednesday, November 30, the liturgical feast of St Andrew. Andrew was St Peter’s brother... they were fishermen. Fontana parishioners have great devotion to St Andrew, since the inhabitants of the village were mostly fishermen. Legend has it that Andrew preached the Good News in what is now modern Greece and Turkey and was crucified at Patras on an X-shaped cross. St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, Barbados, Georgia, Ukraine, Russia, Greece, Cyprus and Romania, among others. A fishermen’s monument was inaugurated on December 1, 1998, by Fontana local council on the church parvis. It features a list of fishermen who, under the leadership of Fr Ġużepp Grima and Grezzja Grima, helped in the building of the parish church. Day of the Poor The Gozitan village also celebrated the...
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