On the 30th September, in the Franciscan Church at Rabat, a celebration took place to commemorate the 100 years from the death of Mgr. Pio Vidi OFM who was a Francsican missionary in China, and who died in Malta, in the friary of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Sliema.

The celebration was presided by Fr. George Aquilina OFM who, during the homily, described very well the life of this Bishop who spent many years in China in the end of the 19th century. He left the Far East because of an illness, just when the Boxer revolution was breaking. In this revolution, in 1900, a group of Franciscans were killed and are now venerated as marytr saints. Among them were three Franciscan bishops, companions of Pio Vidi, namely, Francesco Fogolla, Antonino Fantosati and Gregorio Grassi, together with other Franciscans and 7 Franciscan Missionaries of Mary sisters. Pio Vidi, who was a member of the Venice Franciscan Province, retired in Malta. When he died he was buried in the crypt of the church of Saint Mary of Jesus in Rabat.

After the Mass the remains of Pio Vidi where transported in a processional way to the new grave in the Church where a marble plaque commemorating this Franciscan personage will be placed.