<em>Collegium Melitense</em>: Una misión fronteriza en la confluencia entre el mundo cristiano y el musulmán

Carmel Cassar

doi:10.3989/alqantara.2015.013

Authors

Carmel Cassar University of Malta

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/alqantara.2015.013

Keywords:

Jesuit Curia, Collegium Melitense, North Africa, The Levant, Propaganda Fide, Maltese language, School of Arabic, Missionary activities

Abstract

In 1554 Ignatius Loyola realized Malta’s great potential as a stepping-stone for building contacts with the Muslim Maghreb. The close association of the Maltese language to Arabic further convinced the Jesuit Curia, and the Holy See, to ‘privilege’ Malta as an ideal base for the evangelization of North Africa and the Levant. However, with time, the

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