The Assumption of Our Lady to Heaven, czyli Matki Boskiej Zielnej po maltańsku...

The Feast of Santa Maria or the Assumption of Our Lady to Heaven, is probably Malta's most celebrated Festa, as it is celebrated in the peak of summer where most companies take a week of for their holidays. Santa Maria is celebrated on the 15th of August, which is also a national public holiday in 7 towns and villages across Malta and Gozo and each village puts up an excellent display of traditional Maltese fireworks and a Festa atmosphere. The towns that celebrate the feast of the Assumption are: Hal Għaxaq, Gudja, Attard, Mosta, Mqabba, Qrendi and Victoria.

The Assumption of Mary into Heaven, often shortened to the Assumption and also known as the Feast of Saint Mary the Virgin, mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Falling Asleep of the Blessed Virgin Mary was the bodily taking up of the Virgin Mary into Heaven at the end of her earthly life.

The Catholic Church teaches as dogma that the Virgin Mary "having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory". This doctrine was dogmatically defined by Pope Pius XII on 1 November 1950. In Munificentissimus Deus Pope Pius XII pointed to the Book of Genesis (3:15) as scriptural support for the dogma in terms of Mary's victory over sin and death as also reflected in 1 Corinthians 15:54: "then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory".


In the churches that observe it, the Assumption is a major feast day, commonly celebrated on 15 August. In many countries, the feast is also marked as a Holy Day of Obligation in the Roman Catholic Church and as a festival (under various names) in the Anglican Communion.

Ja spędziłam wieczór w miejscowości Mosta. 

Kościół Wniebowzięcia Matki Bożej, znany jako Rotunda w Moście (Rotunda of Santa Marija Assunta lub po prostu The Mosta Dome) jest imponujący. Posiada on dziewiątą co do wielkości niepodpartą kopułę na świecie i trzecią co do wielkości w Europie

Zbudowany w XIX wieku na miejscu poprzedniego kościoła, został zaprojektowany przez maltańskiego architekta Giorgio de Grognet Vassé. Kopuła ma średnicę wewnętrzną 37,2 metrów, a ściany rotundy są szerokie na 9 metrów. 

9 kwietnia 1942 roku, podczas nalotu Luftwaffe bomba przebiła kopułę i spadła między ok. 300-osobową grupę wiernych, oczekujących na wczesnowieczorną mszę św. Bomba nie wybuchła. Wydarzenie to zostało nazwane Il-Miraklu tal-Bomba.