Three of Christopher’s aunts were members of the Society with two of them elected to the role of Superior Generals of the women’s order (1984-1999 2009-2014). The family had a strong connection to the Society of Christian Doctrine, an organization founded in 1907 by the only Roman Catholic saint from Malta, George Preca. Christopher’s education-primary, secondary and post-secondary-was all in Catholic institutions. The family was typical Maltese in terms of being steeped in Roman Catholic religion. Christopher had a brother three years older and a sister two years older. At that time women in Malta could not teach and be married. He was born into a middle-class family-his father worked in a meteorological office while his mother had been a teacher but retired to become a housewife. Christopher Vella, Coordinator of the Drachma LGBTI Group in Malta as well as Co-Chair of the Global Network of Rainbow Catholics, was born in December 1978 on the island of Malta (Europe).
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