expanded events, programs, status and recognition. It was a
heartfelt experience to witness the extent to which the events
of so many years ago still generated aspirations for the future.
Hopefully, over time, events will transpire enabling fruition.
On my way to Malta in July I visited Rome. There, Don
Leopoldo Torlonia KM thoughtfully opened the shuttered
Malta Villa Magistrale, then in summer slumber on the
Aventine Hill, so that I could visit it for the first time. On the
piano nobile, at the end of the long principal reception room
of the villa, site of so much of the Order���s history, I was at
once drawn to, among the 78 others on display, the portrait of
Grand Master Fra��� Angelo de Mojana. In the morning light,
Turkish ceramic
HYLAND