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Alfons Maria Galea was born in Valletta in 1861. He was a successful businessman. Galea was a noted philanthropist and contributed to the financing of the Good Shepherd Convent in Balzan. He also funded a girl's oratory and founded the Salesian Boy's Institute in Sliema. He contributed to the development of Maltese literature, and during the period 1899-1915 edited a series of 150 books entitled "Il-Mogħdija taż-Żmien". Alfons Maria Galea died in 1941.
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