On February 14 at San Raffeale Hospital, Milan, Rev. Fr. NOEL VELLA passed away peacefully at the age of 60. 

He leaves to mourn his loss his beloved Aunty Lina, Aunty Josephine, his cousins, Rosa and Eric Galea, Adrienne and George Xuereb, Mark and Nadine Vassallo, Odette and Philip Bonello, Jacqueline Vella, Roberta and Paul Sammut, his cousins in Australia, Joe, Marcelle, Arthur and Glorianne, Rosanne and Edgar, other relatives, friends and the parishioners of St Gregory The Great in Sliema.