Mar 9, 2022
Dante on the Poste
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Dante on the Poste
Happy World Day of Peace, Catholics! Held annually on the Solemnity of Mary (January 1) since 1968, World Day of Peace is a feast day dedicated to working toward universal peace. Let’s roll with that, world. Happy new year!
Stamp details: Issued on: April 14, 1986 From: Vatican, Vatican City MC #891
Requiescat in pace, St. Dominic. Domingo de Guzmán was born to Castilian parents in Spain and established the Ordo Praedicatorum in the early 13th Century (earlier than the first office of Grand Inquisitor, by the bye--despite St. Dominic, and the Dominicans in general, being accorded a negative reputation as inquisitors and gleeful sadists, St. Dominic actually died on this date in 1221 [two days shy of his 51st birthday], a decade before the Inquisition was officially instated).
Stamp details: Issued on: May 25, 1971 From: Vatican City, Vatican City-State MC #586-589
Riposi in pace, Saint Frances of Rome. This stamp enthusiast loves those non-virgin saints! Known for her work as a Benedictine oblate and for opening her home as a hospital during the riotous times of the Western Schism (wolves roaming the streets of Rome!), Frances eventually founded the monastery at Tor de’ Specchi in 1433 and after the death of her husband became the superior there until her death on this date in 1440.
Stamp details: Issued on: May 20, 2009 From: Vatican City, Vatican City State MC #1640-1641
Riposi in pace, Saint John Bosco. An Italian priest, Don Bosco founded the Salesian Society (officially the Society of St. Francis de Sales) to alleviate some of the suffering resulting from the Industrial Revolution, particularly among the children of the world. He died on this date in 1888 at the age of 72. He was canonized in 1934 in recognition of his work and given the title of Father and Educator of Youth, and is also known as the patron saint of stage magicians.
Stamp details: Top left: Issued on: February 27, 2006 From: New Delhi, India MC #2134
Top right: Issued on: August 16, 2015 From: Warsaw, Poland MC #4780
Middle stamp: Issued on: August 14, 2015 From: Valletta, Malta MC #1912
Bottom left: Issued on: May 19, 2015 From: Rome, Italy MC #3787
Bottom right: Issued on: May 19, 2015 From: Vatican City, Vatican City State MC #1836
Inaugurato il nuovo ufficio postale mobile Vaticano in piazza San Pietro
Inaugurato il nuovo ufficio postale mobile Vaticano in piazza San Pietro
Roma. È stato inaugurato giovedì scorso il nuovo ufficio postale mobile Vaticano in piazza San Pietro. I lavori sono stati commissionati da Poste Italiane, che ha donato il nuovo ufficio postale al Governatorato. Il nuovo ufficio apre le porte a pochi giorni dall’avvio del Giubileo 2025 e sarà a servizio dei cittadini, dei pellegrini e dei visitatori che arriveranno a Roma in occasione dell’Anno…
Happy 125th birthday, Edith Stein! A Jewish intellectual in the early part of the Twentieth Century, Stein converted to Catholicism in 1922 and eventually joined the Discalced Carmelites as a nun--a vocation that would not save her or her sister Rosa, another converted nun, from the Nazis’ fervor. They both (and countless others) died in the Auschwitz gas chambers on or around August 9, 1942.
Stamp details: Stamp on top: Issued on: January 13, 1983 From: Bonn, West Germany MC #1162
Stamp on bottom: Issued on: May 7, 1996 From: Vatican City, Vatican City State MC #1180
Happy 630th birthday, John of Capistrano! The patron saint of Hungary, military chaplains, and jurists, John of Capistrano was a Franciscan friar who, at the age of 70, led a crusade against the encroaching Ottoman army on the outskirts of Belgrade. Foreshadowing some of the Twentieth Century’s darkest hours, he was also famous for inciting antisemitic violence, even earning the sobriquet “Scourge of the Jews.” Not really what his military chaplain descendants would go in for, especially the Immortal Chaplains.
Stamp details: Stamps on top: Issued on: October 30, 1956 From: Vatican City, Vatican City State SC #214-215
Stamp on bottom: Issued on: August 18, 2000 From: Budapest, Hungary MC #4620