The aging walls of the Magdalene Church in Valletta embrace many stories and many secrets. Stories of female success, happiness, hope but also sadness, despair and suffering.

Prostitutes were not the only inmates at Santa Maria Maddalena as the monastery housed young girls, pregnant women, mistresses of knights, witches, female hostages and other social cases that through volition or coercion took vows of chastity, obedience, poverty and claustration.

On Thursday 20 November at 6.30pm, at the Italian Cultural Institute,  Christine Muscat MA, author of the book Magdalene Nuns and Penitent Prostitutes will be delivering a talk about this group of cloistered nuns who, in the face of all adversity, went on to achieve recognition and status.

A donation of €5 is kindly solicited.

Limited seats are available. Bookings at: http://goo.gl/GXdQUb