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Saint Elmo - patron saint of sailors. Beautiful building. Thanks for sharing.

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I was humming the song "Saint Elmo's Fire" in my head while writing these lines!

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Interesting thanks for sharing and makes sense with a seafaring island

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Malta G. C. ??

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My only guess is that it refers to the George Cross, the British military medal that was awarded to Malta collectively during World War 2. It’s represented on their flag, though I didn’t know anyone actually appended it to the name of the country. But some of those postcards would presumably have been sold to British tourists, so maybe?

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There's apparently also a documentary/movie (1942) about this, and Wikipedia also has a dedicated entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Award_of_the_George_Cross_to_Malta

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Thank you. Makes sense

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