The College of St. Gabriel, Quito
ECUADOR, 1958, the 50th anniversary of the miracle
of Saint Gabriel's College, Scott C321-22
the 19th century entrance
The College of Saint Gabriel in Quito, founded in 1862, is as famous for its miraculous image of Our Lady of Sorrows as it is for its educational excellence. Two stamps bear the image of the school's old door. More
ECUADOR, 1981 the 75th anniversary of the miracle,
Scott 1016
the Saint Gabriel college church
ECUADOR, 1988, the 125th anniversary of the school,
Scott 1171-72
the contemporary facility, the 19th century entrance, Our Lady of Sorrows.
The official page accompanying the release of these stamps says: "For 125 years this college has tried to fulfill to the best of its ability the important mission of the Society of Jesus in the service of the youth of our country. They have been years, certainly, filled with vicissitudes, triumphs, arduous battles and fearsome defeats. At the outset the institution was constituted as a National College; years later it was deprived forcefully of its laboratories, library, and even its buildings. Strong winds of anticlerical obscurantism were blowing in those days, and San Gabriel College was on the point of disappearing completely. But in 1906 — at the height of the anticlerical period — came the miracle of April 20 . . . From that time on, the history of the College of San Gabriel began to be written with a new start . . ."
ECUADOR, 1929, Scott C16-21, CF2
one is overprinted as an air registration stamp
The Jesuit Church (the Iglesia de La Compañía de Jesus, or simply La Compañía) on the Calle Garcia Moreno in Quito was finished in 1765 after being more than a century and a half under construction and just a few years before the Suppression drove the Jesuits out of South America. A blend of Baroque and Quiteño art, it is one of the most ornate churches in Latin America and has been named part of the Cultural Heritage of Humanity. More
ECUADOR, 1947, Scott 478-480, with overprints
in 1948 and 1949, Scott 489, 525-527
ECUADOR, 1990, Scott 1242, 1244b
the highly ornate ceiling of the church on a stamp and souvenir sheet (upper
right)
ECUADOR,2002 dated 2001, Cultural Heritage of
Humanity, Scott 1654b
2002, one of five paintings by Ecuadorian Wilfrido Martinez, Scott 1603d
2003, Cultural Heritage of Humanity, Scott 1689A
ECUADOR, 2003, The Guayaquil Stamp Club stamp-on-stamp issue, Scott
1682
showing the air registration stamp (Scott CF2) to the left of the club seal.
This 15 cent stamp (banana palm tree), said to be the smallest on any postal
stationary, is imprinted on the reverse side of the following postal cards.
The cards give some idea of the richness of La Compañía's decor.
