It is said that Malta has 360 churches and wayside chapels all over the island. It is hardly surprising that the Maltese are quite infamous for their religious devotion. Before the arrival of St Paul (believe to have been shipwrecked at St Pauls Bay) the local civilization's principal deity was the so-called "goddess of fertility".
The conversion of the Maltese people was not sudden or by any way a simple process, as for a while paganism and the Christian faith co-existed.
It was only on the arrival of The Knights that Christianity flourished amongst the Maltese, when the largest number of churches were built.
Religion of Malta
