is a member of the Franciscan Province of the Order of the Friars Minor in Malta. He was born on 3 December 1957 in Malta and joined the Franciscan Order in 1976. He studied in Malta, Bologna and Rome (Pontificium Athenaeum Antonianum), where he specialised in Franciscan Spirituality (1984-1989). His doctoral dissertation is entitled: The Life of St. Francis in the Light of St. Bonaventure's Theology on the "Verbum Crucifixum", TAU Publications, Malta, 1989. He is author of various Franciscan books and publications in Maltese and English. Noel Muscat lives in Mellieha, Malta, and directs the Course of Franciscan Studies of the Franciscan Institute of the Maltese Franciscan Province.

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