After the Great Siege major rebuilding had to commence due to the damage inflicted to structures at St. Mary the Crowned.

The statue enjoyed the same devotion, as in previous times.

During the 1860’s, Bishop Fitzgerald decided on extensive alterations to the Principal Church. He transferred the splendid Arengo’s Carrara marble altar to the High-Altar. He also changed the statue of Our Lady of Europe. His desire was to make the two side-altars symmetrical. The right altar (side of the Blessed Sacrament) had an upright statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. So on the left altar (where Our Lady of Europe was) he placed an upright statue of Our Lady holding the Child. This new statue was beautiful and notorious for winning an award in Paris. Reminiscent of what had occurred three centuries earlier (1660), people never quite identified the new statue with Our Lady of Europe. In 1965, Mgr. Charles Caruana, the present Bishop -then in charge of the sacristy- discovered a store stacked with church objects. Among many statues was the priceless statue of Our Lady of Europe with the Bambino. It was damaged because of humidity also an arm and hand were detached. The statue was restored by a local artist: Victor Gonzalez. The statue was then provisionally kept in the cathedral Sacristy. Bishop Bernard Devlin in 1986 would agree to re-install the much valued statue back to its original position in the Principal Church. She remains there to this day.