Showing posts with label Don Bosco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Don Bosco. Show all posts

Thursday, September 24, 2015

URU - 2015 - #032 - BRIEF DESCRIPTION - BICENTENARY OF BIRTHDAY OF DON BOSCO


Uruguay - 2015 - Bicentenary of Birthday of Don Bosco ( Previous / Next )




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 BLOCK --- 9,00 EUR
 FDC --- 2,00 EUR

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Issue information:

Country: Uruguay
Date: September 8th, 2015
Printed: 15.003 copies

Stamp Shape and Size: Rectangular [39 mm. x 27 mm.]
Perforation: Circular
Gum: Water Activated

Block Configuration: 9 stamps [3 x 4] and one Label at position row 2, columns 1 to 3
Block Shape and Size: Rectangular [189 mm. x 115 mm.]

FDC Type: Official Cover Issued by Post Office
FDC Shape and Size: Rectangular [165 mm. x 105 mm.]


Catalogue information:

Michel: No Data Available
Ivert: No Data Available
Scott: No Data Available
Stanley & Gibbons: No Data Available

Topics:

Brief Description:

A brief description of the Most Popular Topics of this Release are: Clearly Cristianism or Catholicism, and in particular the Institute inside the Catolic Church named Society of St. Francis de Sales founded by Saint John Bosco, whose 200th Anniversary is honoured with this issue.

The Salesians of Don Bosco (or the Salesian Society, officially named the Society of St. Francis de Sales) is a Roman Catholic religious institute founded in the late nineteenth century by Saint John Bosco to help poor children during the Industrial Revolution. The Salesians' charter describes the society's mission as "the Christian perfection of its associates obtained by the exercise of spiritual and corporal works of charity towards the young, especially the poor, and the education of boys to the priesthood".The institute is named after Francis de Sales, an early-modern bishop from Geneva.

St. John Bosco, in Italian: Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco, born on August 16th of 1815 and passed away on January 31st of 1888, popularly known as Don Bosco, was an Italian Roman Catholic priest of the Latin Church, educator and writer of the 19th century. While working in Turin, where the population suffered many of the effects of industrialization and urbanization, he dedicated his life to the betterment and education of street children, juvenile delinquents, and other disadvantaged youth. He developed teaching methods based on love rather than punishment, a method that became known as the Salesian Preventive System. A follower of the spirituality and philosophy of Saint Francis de Sales, Bosco dedicated his works to him when he founded the Salesians of Don Bosco, based in Turin. Together with Maria Domenica Mazzarello, he founded the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, a religious congregation of nuns dedicated to the care and education of poor girls.

In 1876 Bosco founded a movement of laity, the Association of Salesian Cooperators, with the same educational mission to the poor. In 1875 he began to publish the Salesian Bulletin. The Bulletin has remained in continuous publication, and is currently published in 50 different editions and 30 languages.

Bosco established a network of organizations and centres to carry on his work. Following his beatification in 1929, he was canonized as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Pius XI in 1934.

The desing of the Issue, connects with Childhood as Don Bosco is shown listening to a Child, and also Hats, and Religious Costumes Topic could be added by the scene depicted. Then Block and FDC Cancellations did not add much Topics, just a reinforce to Childhood or Youth by the Block, and a kind of Path in the Cancellation.


If you consider that there are another topics in this stamp, that were not spot in this review, you are encouraged to telling me about them, so please do not hesitate to post a comment. I would appreciate your help very much.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

URU - 2015 - #013 - BRIEF DESCRIPTION - CARDINAL DANIEL STURLA


Uruguay - 2015 - Cardinal Daniel Sturla
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SERIES --- 3,50 EUR
BLOCK 1 --- 4,00 EUR
BLOCK 2 --- 17,00 EUR
 FDC not Sent --- 4,50 EUR
 FDC of BLOCK not Sent --- 5,00 EUR
 FDC of BLOCK not Sent AUTOGRAPHED --- 90,00 EUR
FDC Sent on First Day --- 9,00 EUR

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Issue information:

Country: Uruguay
Date: April 21st, 2015
Printed: 20.000 copies (5.000 of Block 1, 3000 of Block 2 with 5 Stamps)

Stamp Shape and Size: Rectangular [27 mm. x 39 mm.]
Perforation: Circular
Gum: Water Activated

Block Configuration:
Block 1: 1 stamp
Block 2: 5 Stamps [1 x 5]
Block Shape and Size:
Block 1: Rectangular [79 mm. x 54 mm.]
Block 2: Rectangular [170 mm. x 119 mm.]

FDC Type: Decorated Cover from Post Office
FDC not sent Shape and Size: Rectangular [182 mm. x 140 mm.]
FDC sent on issue day Shape and Size: Rectangular [182 mm. x 140 mm.]

Cover Shape and Size: Not available

Catalogue information:

Michel: No Data Available
Ivert: No Data Available
Scott: No Data Available
Stanley & Gibbons: No Data Available

Topics:

Brief Description:

A brief description of the Most Popular Topics of this Release are: Christianism and Catholicism or a wider Religion Topic, focused on the personality of Uruguayan Cardinal Daniel Sturla and also on the one of the Pope Francis, Jorge Maria Bergolio from Argentina, as he was the Pope which created Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet, the Cardinal of Santa Galla, while being the Archbishop of Montevideo, and having been previously Bishop of Phelbes in Egypt. This adding to Popes, Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops, or a Wider Catholic Titles Topics to this release.

Then, these two Personalities relates this issue with other Congregations and Personalities from the Catholic Church. Fom the Cardinal Daniel Sturla, the Salesians of Don Bosco, or the Salesian Society, officially named the Society of Saint Francis de Sales, a Roman Catholic Religious Institute founded in the late nineteenth century by Saint John Bosco in order to help the young and poor children through charity in the Industrial Revolution, and with this Society the Personalities of Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco, popularly known as Don Bosco, and François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva. Then, from Pope Francis, The Society of Jesus, a male Religious Congregation of the Catholic Church, founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1540, whose members are called Jesuits, and the personality of Saint Francis of Assisi, or San Francesco d'Assisi, born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, but nicknamed Francesco.

Then, looking more at the desing of the Issue, although the focus of it is clearly in the Personalities of Cardinal Daniel Sturla and Pope Francis, a lot of other topics arises.

From the Stamp, only the Typical Costumes of both Popes and Cardinals Catholic Titles appears, with the addition of the minor ones Hats, and Glasses too.

However, it is in both Blocks that many of very popular Topics are shown. First, in the background it is seen the Project from Gian Lorenzo Bernini, an Italian Artist and a prominent Architect, for the construction of the St. Peter's Square, or Piazza San Pietro, a massive Plaza located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City, the Papal enclave inside Rome. Then, over this Project, besides the stamps, also the Coat of Arms of Cardinal Daniel Sturla is put in both Blocks, and also makes up most of the Postmark for the First Day Cancelation.

The Coat of Arms of Cardinal Daniel Sturla, besides adding Coat of Arms Topic, it also includes many other Topics because of the Items of which is composed. This topics are: Lighthouses, and Navigational Aids, as it inculdes the Hill of Montevideo with his traditional Lighthouse on his Fortress. Then, also Birds, in particular the Hornero, a brown bird with rather short tails and fairly long bills, that are known for building mud nests that resemble old wood-fired ovens, and that particulary gives his name, as the Spanish word "hornero" comes from "horno" that means "oven". And finally the Cross in the left side refers to the one erected for the First visit to Uruguay in 1987 of the former Pope Saint John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła.


If you consider that there are another topics in this stamp, that were not spot in this review, you are encouraged to telling me about them, so please do not hesitate to post a comment. I would appreciate your help very much.

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