The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Paul

In Mdina, Malta. In the apse behind the high altar is Mattia Preti’s mural depicting ‘The Shipwreck of St Paul’. The cathedral was founded in the 12th century, and, according to tradition, ,stands on the site of where Roman governor Publius met St. Paul following his shipwreck on Malta. The original cathedral was severely damaged in the 1693 Sicily earthquake. It was dismantled and rebuilt in the Baroque style to a design of the Maltese architect Lorenzo Gafà between 1696 and 1705. The cathedral is regarded as Gafà's masterpiece. The cathedral is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Malta, and has shared this function with St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta since the 19th century.
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