Magdalene Nuns & Penitent Prostitutes school-books Full size inside pocket

Full size inside pocket

Their contribution was first declared in the 1985 publication of a condensed catalogue of early Maltese Picture Postcards by Dr Giovanni Bonello and Mr Graham Smeed

Ġulja u Veronika huma ħbieb tal-qalb… Iltaqgħu l-ewwel darba l-Junior College u minn hemm bnew relazzjoni ta’ ħbiberija li għal bidu deher li ma seta’ jkissirha ħadd

bniedem mill-aktar onest u maħbub minn kulħadd

Magdalene Nuns & Penitent Prostitutes school-books Full size inside pocketFounded in the late sixteenth century, the one time Magdalene monastery in Valletta embraced the widest spectrum of women of pleasure: from affluent courtesans to back street wenches, from barely adolescent daughters to age hardened strumpets, surrendered, voluntarily in quest of security or forcibly incarcerated within the bleak monastery walls.