St. John's University in Collegeville this past weekend dedicated a new curatorship for organizing the writings of the Knights of St. John. The archive will feature a heavy emphasis on Malta, the tiny Mediterranean country settled by the knights in 1530. The five islands that make up Malta were a British colony until 1964. Over the last 15 years, it has become a major shipping, financial and insurance center. The Maltese ambassador to the United States, George Saliba, attended the dedication. He told Minnesota Public Radio's Stephanie Curtis that he hopes the collection will interest medeival scholars and maybe inspire people to visit his country.