Mark Said

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Father Mark Said O.P, was postulator in the Cause for the Beatification and Canonization of Dun Ġorġ Preca.

He was born at Rabat on 5 April 1918 and joined the Dominican Order in 1934.

Fr Said was ordained priest on the 3rd November 1935. Towards the end of World War II he was sent to Rome to specialize in Canon Law, a subject he later taught at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas, until he retired in 1989.

For six years he held the post of Dean of the Faculty of Canon Law at the same University. While in Rome, Fr Said was Consultant to various Vatican Congregations as well as to the Maltese Embassy in Rome. After Vatican II, he was involved in the revision of the Code of Canon Law as well as in the revision and formation of new Constitutions and Statutes of various religious Congregations.

Fr. Mark Said was Postulator in the Cause for the Beatification and Canonization of Dun Ġorġ Preca for several years. In July 2006, the last major hurdle barring Dun Ġorġ Preca from being proclaimed a saint might have been removed when the Vatican attributed a second miracle to his intercession.

Fr Mark died at St Catherine of Siena Nursing Home in Ħ'Attard at the age of 88.

He died on 2 October 2006 at the age of 88.