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206:. Paul Alphéran de Bussan was appointed as Bishop of Malta on 8 March 1728. He is remembered mostly for building the Mdina seminary, now the Cathedral Museum, in 1733 as well as for financing the printing of a Maltese translation of Cardinal Bellarmino's Catholic Catechism which was distributed to every parish in Malta. The building where the museum is now was built by Bishop Alpheran de Bussan, with the first stone being laid in 1733. This building was to serve as the seminary for the
238:, although Barbara was already dead when construction began, leaving Belli as the more likely candidate. The Mdina Seminary was inaugurated on the 20 May 1742. At that time there were 1,679 priests in the diocese of Malta. The number of Maltese priests declined in the second half of the eighteenth century, a decline caused by the pressure that was brought about by the higher standards of education and intellectual formation that were asked of the candidates to the priesthood by the
259:, the British military used the building as their headquarters. During this occupation, the British added most of the upper floor (now in use by the museum administration) by building two separate wings. The British also added fireplaces to the building, a quintessential addition during the British Victorian period. Then in 1913 British Royal Admiralty occupied the building for urgent use during World War I. Then in 1914, an additional upper storey was built upon the actual
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In the late 1940s, the building served to accommodate the nuns of the Good
Shepherd while certain areas were reserved for the classes of a small private school administered by the chapter. During the years 1940's- to the early 1950s the former seminary was also used as a house of retreat. During the
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On 18 November 2008, an extensive collection of antique silverware, amassed by former
Speaker Jimmy Farrugia, was donated to the Cathedral Museum, Mdina. in 2010 the opening of other silver rooms (formerly used to conserve the archives) was used to accommodate Antonio Arrighi's famous Apsotolato,
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Manresa House in Floriana, the idea to use the former seminary building as a place for permanent exhibitions was discussed in Chapters Meetings of May 1926 and continued on the advent of the
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difficult years of World War II, the issue of the museum was shelved on the chapter's agenda. Finally, a decisive moment came after a successful exhibition with Marian exhibition of 1949 started paving the way for the making of the first professional museum.
202:(1728–1757) first came to Malta at the age of 19 when the ship he was travelling on was caught in heavy storms and had to seek shelter in St. Paul's Bay. Both his uncle Melchior Alpheran de Bussan and brother Jean-Melchior Alphéran were members of the
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stipulated the foundation act and the decree for the erection of a seminary in Mdina. In the year 1733, an extensive building quarter with old medieval houses was bought to build a new bigger seminary presently the premises of the
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148:, in Archbishop's Square. The museum's collection includes an eclectic secular and ecclesiastical repertoire. The museum also holds various artwork and archaeology remains, including important artwork by
282:, exactly in August 1938. In the years between 1939 and 1942, the edifice saw another change when the political vicissitudes of Malta at the time of World War II brought to Mdina Seminary the
301:, which made the Maltese man of letters one of the earliest Maltese art collectors to bequeath a significant portion of his collection to the public. His register of purchases, titled
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