Manwel Magri

Manwel Magri was born in Valletta on 27 February 1851. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1871 and was ordained a priest in Spain ten years later; from 1902 to 1906 he directed the seminary of Gozo. A pioneer of Maltese archaeology, he excavated the Ħal Saflieni hypogeum and a megalithic temple on Gozo, but his report on the hypogeum was lost after his death. He also collected the proverbs and tales of the archipelago. He died in Sfax, in Tunisia, on 29 March 1907.

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• TaleOld Folktales of the Maltese IslandsĦrejjef MissirijietnaManwel Magri · 1902Literature