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should a community group be made? just to stick together and chat about it? i never know who's in charge of that stuff </3

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'Unsung, unwept, unblessed.’ 

 The Oubliette at Fort St.Angelo, #MyMalta 

 Scratched on the walls of this grim, and often, unnoticed oubliette, are various designs and inscriptions, written as far back as the 16th century in Latin, Italian, French and German. Known as the #oubliette of Fort St. Angelo, this is a secret dungeon with access only through a trapdoor in its ceiling.  It is found next to the nativity chapel, and it was originally a water cistern but over time, it was used as an underground dungeon.  Among these inscriptions there is; IHONE I AME…NDELANDISCITA LLA AD CARCERESSEPVLTVRA VIVORVMDESTRUCTIO BONORVMCONSOLATIO INIMICORVMEXPERENTIA…AMICOVMwhich means, “this prison is a burial place for the living where the upright and they are executed to the great satisfaction of their enemies, it is also a warning to friends to avoid our fate.”Evidently, this inscription is the work of a knight from the Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, John James Sandilands who was imprisoned here for two months in 1563, for quarrelling in Church. Later he fell under suspicion of being the author theft and a plate from the church of St Anthony in Vittoriosa. Apprehended, he confessed under torture to his crimes, declaring that he had melted the silver and shared it with two others. He was deprived of the knight’s habit and remitted to the secular power and was in consequence condemned to death, executed and his corpse thrown into the gutter. One prominent shield is that of a French knight, whose family escutcheon is a swan beneath a cheveron, with a right and left star respectively and arose. The names of the Italian knights which are still seen are Leonardv, Brvnv, and Annibale Parucci, with the year 1573 underneath the inscriptions, which respectively reads; from Psalmi 85:17 ‘fac mecum signum in bono’ and ‘spes mea in deo’.’Another interesting carving is bas relief is about one foot in length and it seems to be a coach driven by two lions. Perhaps the coach represents a hearse, upon which the victim is carried to the cemetery after #death; ‘unsung, unwept, unblessed.’ 

The question arises whether this oubliette was a dungeon, a temporary prison, or a death pit. No human bones have been found so it is more likely it was a temporary #prison.   

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