St Catherine’s of Võru was built in the years 1788–1792, being a contemporary with the city, and its inauguration took place on July 24, 1793. The late baroque church with strong early classical features is attributed to Christoph Haberland, an architect based in Riga.
published July 17th, 2013
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Australia Post has officially marked the start of the festive season with the release of this year’s Christmas stamps featuring symbols of popular Christmas carols and the traditional nativity scene.
“Even with new digital forms of communications, Australians still enjoy sending their Christmas greetings through the post,” said Australia Post General Manager, Merchandise Services, Rowan Howarth.
“Sending cards is a strong Christmas tradition and Australia Post has a long and proud history of helping to connect Australians to their family and friends, wherever they live in Australia – or the world.”
published November 12th, 2012
A Painter of Ligurian origin born in nice. Louis (Ludovico) Brea was among the first to set aside the traditional codes of Gothic art to bring the region of Liguria and the Comté de Nice into the Renaissance.
published July 30th, 2012
On the occasion of Easter holidays, Romfilatelia introduces into circulation the postage stamps issue HOLY EASTER 2012. The Resurrection of our Lord, this miracle that has been in the Christian mind for two millennia, has always made people become better to be able to properly receive the Light of Christ´s Resurrection.
The postage stamp of this issue illustrates the icon The Resurrection of Christ, made in 1876, which can be found in the patrimony of Saint Pantelimon Church inBucharest. 260 years ago, the ancient wooden church that laid on the location of the current Saint Pantelimon Church was mentioned for the first time in the testament of the ruler Grigore Ghica.
In 1790, Ioan de la Silvestru built a new holy place on the location of the former church; he painted the icon of Virgin Mary and of Jesus Christ. The builder of the holy place also painted the outline of the church on a wooden box containing 11 small icons depicting several holidays.
Seriously damaged by the earthquake in 1838, almost three decades later, the decision to (read more)
published April 6th, 2012
The Christchurch Philatelic Society celebrated its centenary in 2011, and is holding a Stamp and Postcard Exhibition on 14 and 15 January to commemorate. New Zealand Post has issued special exhibition products that are themed around Robert F Scott’s expedition to the South Pole for which he used Christchurch and Lyttelton as a base.
published March 16th, 2012
The two words that embody this idea are astounding: Word and Image. For the societies that have inherited age-old Mediterranean cultures, the concept of Sacred Text comprises the actual idea of Religion, Theology and Piety. We talk of “Religions of the Book” as if the book was the essence of those movements. And, in reality, it is.
published March 9th, 2012
The volume of letters and postcards sent by the public at post offices usually leaps twice every year as part of the festivities at Christmas and Easter. This, as well as Hungarian philatelic traditions, prompts Magyar Posta to mark Christianity’s major feast by issuing a new stamp each year. Magyar Posta’s philatelic novelty was designed by the graphic artist Dóra Keresztes, made by the state printing company Állami Nyomda and released on 24 February in the presence of Bishop Antal Spányi in the building of the Hungarian Catholic Radio by Deputy CEO Gábor Bakati.
published February 29th, 2012
Magyar Posta is issuing a special stamp to commemorate the centenary of the Greek Catholic Diocese of Hajdúdorog. The stamp design depicts the Weeping Icon of the Theotokos of the Greek Catholic Shrine in Máriapócs, Pantocrator by Ádám Kisleghi Nagy, an extract from the Papal Bull ordering the establishment of the Greek Catholic Church of Hungary, and a detail from the iconostasis of the Greek Catholic church in Hajdúdorog. The four pictures are connected by the symbol of the Greek Catholic Church of Hungary and the composition has the same ornamental decoration which adorns the Papal Bull at the side.
On the first day cover the ceiling fresco of the church in Hajdúdorog is shown, while the special postmark bears the silhouette of the church from an 1859 depiction. The centenary stamp was made in the state printing company Állami Nyomda based on the design of graphic artist Anita Laczkó.
The Magyar tribes first came into contact with Byzantine Christianity during their centuries of migration, and missionaries who used the Eastern liturgy began their conversion. After the Fourth Lateran Council, Byzantine Christianity was forced into the background, but prayers and hymns from the 17th century show that it continued to survive.
On 16 April 1868 the representatives of fifty-two Hungarian Greek Catholic congregations held a national congress, where they urged the adoption of a liturgy in Hungarian and the establishment of an independent diocese. As a result of this, Franz Joseph I established the Vicariate of Hajdúdorog and on 8 June 1898 the National Committee of Greek-Rite Catholic Hungarians was set up.
The Diocese was established by Franz Joseph I on 6 May 1912, canonized by the bull Christifideles Graeci of Pope Pius X on 8 June 1912, and enacted by Law XXXV of 1913 of the Hungarian Parliament. The Diocese originally covered 162 parishes but, after the Trianon Peace Treaty, this number was reduced by almost half. In 1968 the Diocese’s authority was extended by permission of the Holy See to parishes beyond its boundaries.
Pope John Paul II extended the authority of the Diocese of Hajdúdorog to all Greek Catholics in Hungary, with the exception of those in the Apostolic Exarchate of Miskolc, in his bull Summis Pontificibus on 17 July 1980. The bull was handed over by Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, State Secretary of His Holiness the Pope, in Esztergom on 28 September 1980.
Source: Magyar Post
published February 24th, 2012
The Cathedral Nuestra Señora de la Huerta de Tarazona, first called Nuestra Señora de Hidria, features in this souvenir sheet that depicts a side view of the temple with the dome over the transept, whilst the stamp features a panoramic view of the tower.
The building works began in 1162 but it wasn’t consecrated until 1235. During the reign of James I the Conqueror it was expanded and in the XIV century suffered significant damage during the War of the two Pedros. It was then rebuilt and underwent various changes over the centuries merging architectural elements of the Gothic, Renaissance and Moorish periods.
published November 29th, 2011
Magyar Posta is issuing a special stamp to commemorate Saint Martin, the bishop of Tours, who was born in the province of Pannonia and is the patron saint of the diocese of Savaria (today Szombathely), Gaul (today France) and Burgenland (Austria) as well as of soldiers, beggars and many crafts. Many hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of places and churches around the world bear his name. His legend has inspired a multi-tude of artworks and the events of his life are captured by folk traditions. Besides religious deference, many folk traditions enliven his feast day, 11 November, and the surrounding period. Saint Martin’s day is the start of winter, when it is the custom to taste the new wine and to eat goose. The bird’s wishbone is then used to forecast the weather. (read more)
published November 18th, 2011
The Philatelic Bureau of MaltaPost p.l.c. has issued a philatelic commemorative set of three stamps titled ‘Christmas 2011’ on the 15th November 2011. This year’s Christmas set reproduces Old Master paintings representing The Holy Family. The philatelic stamps which values €0.20, €0.37 and €0.63 reproduce the paintings: “The Holy Family in an interior”, “The Madonna and Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist” and “The Rest on the Flight into Egypt” An amount of 1,800,000 stamps carry a face value of €0.20, 400,000 stamps carry a face value €0.37 and an amount of 120,000 carry a face value of €0.63.
published November 16th, 2011