A world beneath the cloister: Inside the hidden life of St Catherine’s Monastery

Opened to the public in 2023, the Mysterium Fidei Museum beneath St Catherine's Monastery in Valletta invites visitors into an underground complex that served as the home of cloistered Augustinian nuns for over 400 years - a self-sustainable place where daily life was defined by simplicity, discipline, faith, and an unbroken vow to remain within the