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by bcadmin | Oct 29, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Christmas, Christmas tree, News, Stamps, Vatican, Vatican City State | 0 |
The Vatican’s Philatelic Office published a notice about the Vatican’s 2022 Christmas stamps, which were painted by Italian artist and activist Francesco Canale, who was born without arms or legs and paints holding a brush between his teeth.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 28, 2022 | Christmas tree, From the Vatican, nativity scene, News, St. Peter's Square, Stamps, The Nativity scene | 0 |
The Nativity scene that will sit under a 98-feet-tall silver fir tree in the middle of St. Peter’s Square this year will feature 19 life-sized figures carved in cedar by artisans in the northeastern Italian town of Sutrio.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 30, 2022 | Art, art history, Black Catholics, Black History Month, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Native Americans, News, Racism, slavery, Stamps | 0 |
Edmonia Lewis, the first African American and Native American sculptor to achieve international recognition through works that reflected her Catholic faith and the dignity of people, is being commemorated on a new postage stamp.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 11, 2021 | Art, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, Christmas, Holy Family, Homeless, lead, News, Stamps, Vatican | 0 |
This year the Holy Family and the Magi featured on a special Yuletide francobollo (Italian for “stamp”) have a very special story behind them, as they were drawn by a painter-in-residence at a Vatican palace who was homeless just a year ago.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 25, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Copyright, News, religious art, second, Stamps, Vatican | 0 |
Alessia Babrow sued the Vatican City State’s telecommunications office in a Rome court last month, alleging it was wrongfully profiting off her creativity and was violating the original intent of her artwork in a postage stamp.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 4, 2021 | Fratelli Tutti, From the Vatican, News, Stamps, Vatican Philatelic Office | 0 |
Pope Francis’ ongoing efforts to promote interreligious dialogue will be highlighted in a new series of Vatican stamps.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 3, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Interreligious dialogue, News, Pope Francis, Stamps, Vatican, Vatican City State | 0 |
Pope Francis’ ongoing efforts to promote interreligious dialogue will be highlighted in a new series of Vatican stamps.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 30, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Christmas, News, Stamps, Vatican, Vatican City State | 0 |
Although the Vatican knows Christmas may be very different this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it already has chosen its stamps and the Nativity scene and tree that will stand in St. Peter’s Square.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 10, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Christmas, Church in the US, News, Stamps, US Postal Service | 0 |
A new postage stamp for Christmas shows detail from an 18th-century Peruvian painting of Our Lady of Guapulo.
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