Meeting in Malta
Linda Hoy celebrates the first Quaker Meeting in Malta since the seventeenth century
It was with great joy, and even more faith, that we held our first official Quaker Meeting in Malta recently. Before visiting the island, I checked in case they happened to have a Quaker Meeting and was not too surprised by the answer: the last recorded English Quaker visitors, Sarah Cheevers and Katherine Evans, were arrested and imprisoned for three years by the Inquisition. That was in 1658 and we heard nothing about Friends going back. Malta is hardly known as a hotbed of radical theology: although, as they’ve recently legalised divorce, we might assume the Inquisition is nowadays on the wane…
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