grounding Malta otherwise as well

[Mark Kohut]

*Always a central travel,shipping route esp. Valleta. between East & West.
* Means 'haven' in Phoenician
*two major languages spoken, including the native Maltese
* made up of lots of small villages on the mainland (see European village motif 
in AtD)
* a City-State
*St. Paul, real founder of Christianity some say, was shipwrecked there
* Catholicism, the major national religion

* also a key location in Catch-22.