14 Facts About Nazju Falzon

Nazju Falzon was a Maltese cleric and a professed member from the Secular Franciscan Order.

Nazju Falzon did not become an ordained priest because he did not feel he was adequate enough for such an honor.

Nazju Falzon became an apt catechist and noted for his commitment to religious instruction.

Nazju Falzon was born in Malta in a big house on Strait Street on 1 July 1813 to Francis Joseph Falzon and Maria Teresa Debono.

Nazju Falzon had three brothers; all four became lawyers and two of the brothers entered the priesthood.

Nazju Falzon obtained a doctorate in law on 7 September 1883.

Nazju Falzon received the tonsure and his clerical habit on 20 December 1828 and on 21 December 1828 was instituted as a cleric in a Mass that Mgr.

Nazju Falzon received the minor orders on both 21 August 1831 and on 18 December 1831 but did not wish to be ordained as a priest on the basis of unworthiness despite the local bishop's encouragement.

Nazju Falzon taught catechism to local children first at the Institute of the Good Shepherd and became quite fluent in English due to the fact that the British were present across the island nation.

Nazju Falzon worked with the British soldiers and sailors who were stationed on Malta which at the time was a British protectorate; he would seek out the men at their assigned positions.

Nazju Falzon imported simple texts in various vernacular languages and distributed them to his flock to read; he was a writer and was responsible for "The Comfort of the Christian Soul".

Nazju Falzon had a strong devotion to the Eucharist and to the Archangel Raphael as well as devotions to Saint Joseph and to Benedict Joseph Labre.

Nazju Falzon died in 1865 due to a heart attack and was interred in the Nazju Falzon Vault though later moved to the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception in the local Franciscan church.

Nazju Falzon was named as Venerable on 23 October 1987 after Pope John Paul II confirmed that the late Maltese cleric led a life of heroic virtue.