On March 17, at Mater Dei Hospital, MGR CHARLES G. VELLA, born in Sliema on June 27, 1928, and ordained priest on December 8, 1954, was called by Jesus the Eternal Priest from a life lived for families and the sick. 

Founder of the Cana Movement and director at San Raffaele Hospital, Milan.

He leaves to mourn his loss his sisters Mary, widow of John Zammit, Lydia and her husband Cecil Blake, his brother Alfred, his nephews and nieces Anna Zammit, Dorothy and Richard Galea Debono, Mark Zammit and his partner Marielle, Audrey and Mark Xuereb, James and Sheryl Ann Blake, and Lara Vella, together with his grand-nephews and nieces and their respective children, and other relatives and numerous friends in Malta and Italy, among them his collaborator Antonio Strizzi.