Radio Fides

BOLIVIA, 1989, the 50th anniversary of Radio Fides, Scott 787

This stamp bears prominently the seal of the Society of Jesus. Licensed around 1937, Radio Fides, operated by the Jesuits out of La Paz, is the second oldest Catholic radio in the Americas, the third oldest in the world.

The Mission at San Borja

1994, the 3rd centenary of San Borja, Scott 920

San Borja, the mission and town in the Department of Beni, Bolivia, was founded as San Francisco de Borja by Jesuit missionaries Francisco Borja and Ignacio de Sotomayor, on October 10th, the feast of St. Francis Borgia, SJ, 1693 on the banks of Maniqui river, just 23 years after Borgia's canonization.

The Cathedral, Trinidad

    
BOLIVIA,1943, the centenary of the Department of Beni, Scott 297-301

The Cathedral Church of Trinidad, the capital city of the Beni Department, was once a church of the Jesuits. Their mission there was founded in 1686 by Fr. Cipriano Barace, SJ

Misión de Chiquitos

 
ANTIGUA, 1997, the 50th anniversary of World Heritage, Scott 2054d and 2054

This World Heritage souvenir sheet shows the Misión de Chiquitos, a Jesuit reducción in Bolivia. It also shows at the bottom left the Misión de Santísima Trinidad in Paraguay. More

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