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The Iron Knight of Malta

By: Joe L. Caruana MBE

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The author has written this novel with a sentimental feeling about the land of his ancestors, the Maltese people. A people who have shown remarkable courage and faith on many occasions in the history of the Mediterranean. The story of this book tells of their courage during the Great Siege of 1565, just as Voltaire said, No siege is better known than that of the Great Siege of Malta. The five-century-old religious fight between Christians and Muslims, known as the battle between the Cross and the Koran, drifted to the shores of Malta where the Order of St. John of Jerusalem had their headquarters. It produced many heroes and tyrants, several of these are the subject of our novel. The great Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, unchallenged emperor of the Great Ottoman Empire, tries to impose Islam over Christian Europe. During five centuries, the Christian Crusaders were slowly expelled from the Holy Land, and now the great Sultan drives out the Order of St. John of Jerusalem from their last stronghold, the fortress in the island of Rhodes. Then the battle shifts to the brave Island of Malta where its people play an important role in helping La Valette and the Order fight the Turks. Jean De La Valette, commander of the Orders Christian navy, knight-adventurer, and defender of the faith, engages famous Muslim pirates, like Barbarossa and Dragut Reis, and harasses on the huge Turkish navy. He seeks to recover the Holy Cross taken by the Saracens. The secret of a forbidden romance in the paradise island of Rhodes haunts this warrior monk of eighty-four battlesa unique man enslaved by the Saracens and then escapes. He is later elevated to the position of grand master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem and Rhodes. He was considered by his peers to be the man for the moment restoring the order to its former glory. One man, Jean De La Valette, the greatest of the grand masters, the rarest of human beings, defeats the Sultans Ottoman army in the Great Siege of Malta in 1565. La Valette became known as the Scourge of Africa and Asia, the Shield of Europe, fearless and indomitable, by his Holy Arms. With only seven hundred Knights and several thousand Spanish, Italian, Portuguese soldiers and fifteen thousand Maltese civilians (men, women, and children alike), he repels the great Turkish army of over forty thousand troops. A great historical novel of a great man and a valiant and victorious people, the people of Malta.

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When the Hangman Came

By: Joe L. Caruana Mbe,Joe Caruana

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When the Hangman Came

By: Joe L. Caruana Mbe,Joe Caruana

Joe Caruana was born in Gibraltar on 13 November 1937. He attended Gibraltar Technical College. He worked as a draughtsman at the Air Ministry in Gibraltar and the UK and studied Engineering at the London Polytechnic. He became a specialist in industrial diamonds. Joe's public life started in 1966 when he became founding secretary of the Gibraltar Junior Chamber of Commerce. In 1967 he joined the executive of the Integration with Britain Party in Gibraltar. The IWBP won the 1969 general elections, and he served as Minister for Medical Services from 1969-70, and from 1970-72 as Minister for Public Works (also Housing). He served as a member of the Gibraltar Council and was chairman of several important committees including the Development and Planning Commission. With his family Joe went to Canada and stayed there for twelve years, starting a successful business in his old profession in the industrial diamond drilling industry. Around 1984 Joe volunteered to help at a home that helped teenage prostitutes and drug addicts called Exodus House, run by lay Franciscan brothers, an order he joined at the time.

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The Power of Pentecost, the Power in Hands

By: Joe L. Caruana MBE GMD

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The Power of Pentecost, the Power in Hands

By: Joe L. Caruana MBE GMD

After Jesus’s death, when the disciples were hiding in fear of arrest, they gathered to celebrate the feast of Pentecost, together with Jesus’s mother, Mary. What followed was an event that would change their lives and alter the course of Christianity forever. The Power of Pentecost, the Power in Our Hands presents the rich history of the Christian church and the many heresies that have plagued the faith, attempting to destroy it. It examines those who defended the faith in its early years and considers the great gift instituted at the Last Supper, the altar call of love. The study also explores Pentecost, an explosive event that awakened the disciples and allowed them to perform miracles, marking the start of a church that flourished despite persecution. Author Joe L. Caruana also shares testimony about the spiritual experiences that brough him back to the church with a new dynamism. This study reminds us of the truth about several important relevant subjects and seeks to reveal the factors that have made the Catholic Church great and enduring over the centuries.

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1665596279

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When the Hangman Came

By: Joe L. Caruana Mbe,Joe Caruana

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The Iron Knight of Malta

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When the Hangman Came

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The Power of Pentecost, the Power in Hands

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When the Hangman Came

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