Loyola College, Chennai
INDIA, 1997, the centenary of the birth of Fr. Jerome D'Souza, SJ,
Scott 1661
When the life of Fr. Jerome D'Souza was celebrated with the above issue, included in the background of the stamp was the church of Loyola College in Chennai (formerly Madras), the Jesuit school where Fr. D'Souza had long worked. More
The Basilica of Bom Jesus & the Professed House, Goa
PORTUGUESE INDIA, 1931, from the Xavier
issue, Scott 418
the Jesuit
Basilica of Bom Jesus and next to it the former Jesuit cassa professa
or professed house
PORTUGUESE INDIA, 1946, a postal card featuring the interior of the
Bom Gesu Church, H&G 42a
its stamp bears the image of St. John de Britto.
INDIA, 1985, the 125th anniversary
of St. Xavier's College in Kolkata,
Scott 1087
Fr. Henri Depelchin (1822-1900) came with an Anglo-Belgian group to Calcutta in 1859 to start St. Xavier's College in Kolkata. He had become its rector in 1864. By the end of his tenure in 1871 the school had 500 students, and Fr. Depelchin moved on to be rector at St. Xavier's in Mumbai. After a failed attempt to establish a mission in the Zambesi river valley in the 1880s he returned to spend the rest of his life in India.back to India. Rabindranath Tagore, Jagadish Chandra Bose and Ramananda Chatterjee are counted among the alumni of St. Xavier's in Kolkata. More
St. Aloysius College, Mangalore
INDIA, January 12, 2001 — the day in 1880 that St. Aloysius College
began, Scott 1870
St. Aloysius College Chapel in Mangalore is decorated by the paintings — frescoes, tempera and canvas panels — of an Italian Jesuit Brother Antonio Moscheni, done from 1899 to 1901. The above panel shows the early life of St. Aloysius. More
INDIA , 1994, the 125th anniversary of the founding
of St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, Scott
1513. More
The
Papal Seminary, Pune
INDIA, 1993, the centenary of the
Papal Seminary at Pune, Scott 1465
The seminary was entrusted to the Society of Jesus in 1893 by Pope Leo XIII. Its name has since been changed to Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth (Institute of Philosophy and Religion).