Quakers in Malta
Linda Hoy writes about the Quaker presence in Malta
In 1659 two British Quakers, Sarah Cheevers and Katharine Evans, arrived on the island of Malta. St Paul, shipwrecked there 1,600 years or so earlier, had converted the island to Christianity and now, the women assumed, it was the turn of Quakers to carry out their little bit of outreach. The Inquisition had other ideas. After interrupting Mass and shouting prophecies into the streets, the two women were imprisoned for three and a half years in a room that was: …so hot and so close, we were fain to rise often out of bed, and lie down at a chink of their door for air to fetch breath.
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