In the Chapel of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary you may admire the earliest double statue in Gozo, carved in wood by Maltese artist Sigismondo Dimech between 1802 and 1807. Dimech in fact also worked together with his son Ferdinando on the decorative sculpture of the new façade in 1818, and their signatures can still be seen on one of its walls – the only such case on a church façade on the islands. The altar in this chapel has the same dedication, and the pre-1715 painting by Alessio Erardi served as a model for the statue itself.

The Chapel hosts also the beautiful wooden statue of St Michael the Archangel, made by Alessandro Farrugia in 1838.

The main focus inside this Chapel is of course the Blessed Sacrament, which is kept in a wooden tabernacle on the altar. On the Lord’s own command, the Catholic faithful spend time in prayer and adoration in front of the Real Presence in the Holy Eucharist, and so you too, whatever your nationality or religious creed, are invited to pause in a moment of prayer and reflection.