Founder of the Fraternities of San Calogero of Rabat, Gozo, and of San Isodoro for the farmers of the named Gozitan island, Friar Mikelanġ Axisa OFM. Conv., took an active part in the humanitarian activities aiding those stricken with plague in 1813.
Born in Valletta, Malta, to Fortunato Axisa and Angela Debono, a nouble couple, he received the name Ġorġ on his baptism at the Collegiate Parish Church of St. Paul's Shipwreck. Joining the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, he was sent to Sicily for his studies, receiving Mikelanġ as his religious name.
Ordained to the priesthood in 1789, on April 20 of the following year he began lecturing in public schools. Receiving a degree in Sacred Theology in 1795, his parents covered the expenses for the building of the chapel and oratory of Saint Francis in Rabat, Gozo.
Superior of the convent of the Franciscan Conventual Fathers of the named island of Gozo during the French Occupation of Malta, he was arrested by the French while trying to cross the channel between Malta and Gozo, during the night of September 4, 1798, but was later released. When the French left Malta in 1800, the British Government gave Friar Mikelanġ a number of boards, out of which he had new windows and doors for his convent carved.
During the plague which hit the islands in 1813, he had the medical doctor in charge of the plague stricken victims of Xagħra stay at the Convent, and aided many of those suffering from the terrible disease.
Guardian of the Rabat convent for several years, Friar Mikelanġ passed away on April 15, 1847 aged 83, when he had already lost his eyesight, and was laid to rest at the Santa Maria Cemetery, limits of Rabat, Gozo.
Born in Valletta, Malta, to Fortunato Axisa and Angela Debono, a nouble couple, he received the name Ġorġ on his baptism at the Collegiate Parish Church of St. Paul's Shipwreck. Joining the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, he was sent to Sicily for his studies, receiving Mikelanġ as his religious name.
Ordained to the priesthood in 1789, on April 20 of the following year he began lecturing in public schools. Receiving a degree in Sacred Theology in 1795, his parents covered the expenses for the building of the chapel and oratory of Saint Francis in Rabat, Gozo.
Superior of the convent of the Franciscan Conventual Fathers of the named island of Gozo during the French Occupation of Malta, he was arrested by the French while trying to cross the channel between Malta and Gozo, during the night of September 4, 1798, but was later released. When the French left Malta in 1800, the British Government gave Friar Mikelanġ a number of boards, out of which he had new windows and doors for his convent carved.
During the plague which hit the islands in 1813, he had the medical doctor in charge of the plague stricken victims of Xagħra stay at the Convent, and aided many of those suffering from the terrible disease.
Guardian of the Rabat convent for several years, Friar Mikelanġ passed away on April 15, 1847 aged 83, when he had already lost his eyesight, and was laid to rest at the Santa Maria Cemetery, limits of Rabat, Gozo.
Founder of the Fraternities of San Calogero of Rabat, Gozo, and of San Isodoro for the farmers of the named Gozitan island, Friar Mikelanġ Axisa OFM. Conv., took an active part in the humanitarian activities aiding those stricken with plague in 1813.
Born in Valletta, Malta, to Fortunato Axisa and Angela Debono, a nouble couple, he received the name Ġorġ on his baptism at the Collegiate Parish Church of St. Paul's Shipwreck. Joining the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, he was sent to Sicily for his studies, receiving Mikelanġ as his religious name.
Ordained to the priesthood in 1789, on April 20 of the following year he began lecturing in public schools. Receiving a degree in Sacred Theology in 1795, his parents covered the expenses for the building of the chapel and oratory of Saint Francis in Rabat, Gozo.
Superior of the convent of the Franciscan Conventual Fathers of the named island of Gozo during the French Occupation of Malta, he was arrested by the French while trying to cross the channel between Malta and Gozo, during the night of September 4, 1798, but was later released. When the French left Malta in 1800, the British Government gave Friar Mikelanġ a number of boards, out of which he had new windows and doors for his convent carved.
During the plague which hit the islands in 1813, he had the medical doctor in charge of the plague stricken victims of Xagħra stay at the Convent, and aided many of those suffering from the terrible disease.
Guardian of the Rabat convent for several years, Friar Mikelanġ passed away on April 15, 1847 aged 83, when he had already lost his eyesight, and was laid to rest at the Santa Maria Cemetery, limits of Rabat, Gozo.
Born in Valletta, Malta, to Fortunato Axisa and Angela Debono, a nouble couple, he received the name Ġorġ on his baptism at the Collegiate Parish Church of St. Paul's Shipwreck. Joining the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, he was sent to Sicily for his studies, receiving Mikelanġ as his religious name.
Ordained to the priesthood in 1789, on April 20 of the following year he began lecturing in public schools. Receiving a degree in Sacred Theology in 1795, his parents covered the expenses for the building of the chapel and oratory of Saint Francis in Rabat, Gozo.
Superior of the convent of the Franciscan Conventual Fathers of the named island of Gozo during the French Occupation of Malta, he was arrested by the French while trying to cross the channel between Malta and Gozo, during the night of September 4, 1798, but was later released. When the French left Malta in 1800, the British Government gave Friar Mikelanġ a number of boards, out of which he had new windows and doors for his convent carved.
During the plague which hit the islands in 1813, he had the medical doctor in charge of the plague stricken victims of Xagħra stay at the Convent, and aided many of those suffering from the terrible disease.
Guardian of the Rabat convent for several years, Friar Mikelanġ passed away on April 15, 1847 aged 83, when he had already lost his eyesight, and was laid to rest at the Santa Maria Cemetery, limits of Rabat, Gozo.
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