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Fra John Critien

November 1, 2021

In this episode, we meet a knight! Frà John Edward Critien is a professed member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the only Maltese to have ever been elevated to the highest ranks of this International Order.

For several years he lived in the Order’s Headquarters at the historic Palazzo Malta in Rome where he was Conservator of the Magistral Palace Library andArchives and Curator of the art collections of the Order. In 2000 he moved to Malta to take up residence at Fort Saint Angelo, where, to this day, he is the only Knight Resident occupying and caring for this incredible site, laden with history, over looking the Grand Harbour of Malta.

He has been received into various orders of chivalry and honoured with the award of several prestigious decorations from various States. He wears all this very lightly, and his warmth and charm, his welcoming nature and a charitable disposition shine through in this conversation.

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With the late GM Fra Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto at Villa Malta on the Aventine © Reserved. Reproduced by kind permission of the S.M.O. of Malta

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Inaugurating the restoration works at Santa Maria del Priorato © Reserved. Reproduced by kind permission of the S.M.O. of Malta

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St Angelo © Reserved. Reproduced by kind permission of the S.M.O. of Malta

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A view of the historic Magistral Palace at Saint Angelo

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St Anne's chapel at Fort Saint Angelo

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Artemisia Gentileschi’s ‘Portrait of a Lady with a Fan’ © Reserved. Reproduced by kind permission of the S.M.O. of Malta

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Frà John in front of the nymphaeum

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