1991, cancels with reference to the Jesuit College at Messina and the 1991
World Congress on Jesuit Education
The College at Messina was the first Jesuit school open to lay men. The World Congress on Jesuit Education took place in Messina in November 1991 as part of the Ignatian Year. Jesuit education at that time concerned 1370 educational institutions, in 65 countries, embracing 2,000,000 students and 81,000 teachers.
The Brera College and Observatory, Milan
YUGOSLAVIA, 1987, 2nd centenary of the death of Roger Boscovich, Scott 1834 perf and imperf
featuring the Brera Observatory founded by himIn 1571 Pope Pius V at the request of Cardinal Charles Borromeo gave the remains of a monastery and the land that once belong to the congregation of the Humiliati, now dissolved, to the Jesuits to set up a college there. In 1572 Pope Gregory XIII issued the Bull "Dum intra mentis nostrae" gave the Jesuit college of Brera rights to award certain university degrees, but to avoid conflict with the nearby University of Pavia and the Senate of Milan which defended Pavia's status, the Jesuits exercised their higher academic privileges cautiously . Meanwhile plans for a new school building, begun in 1573 by Martino Bassi, did not progress until 1627 when Francesco Maria Richini took over the project. In 1764-1765 under Boscovich's instigation the observatory was added. When the Society was dissolved in 1773 the college and observatory became state property. The building now houses the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan's largest art gallery and one of the most important in Italy, as well as the Accademia and the Brera library.
Nunziatella Military School, Naples
ITALY , 1987, the 2nd centenary of
the Nunziatella Military School of Naples, Scott 1727
The Nunziatella is so named from a chapel on the grounds, "the little chapel of the Annunciation." The noblewoman Anna Mendozza Marchesana della Valle had this built in 1588, and gave it to the Jesuits as their novitiate. After the Suppression of the Jesuits, it entered into other hands, and in 1787 became one of the foremost military academies in Europe.
ITALY 2000, the 150th anniversary of its foundation, Scott 2340
Jesuits today have many publicaitons, but La Civiltà Cattolica, a biweekly publication, is the first of their journals to be published following the restoration of the Society. La Civiltà Cattolica is read by the Vatican Secretary of State before publication, and so it is considered an indication of the mind of the Vatican on issues the Vatican itself has not yet officially addressed. More
The Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome
VATICAN CITY, 2009, World Book and Copyright DayThe Pontifical Biblical Institute (P.B.I.) is a university-level institution of the Holy See. It was established by Pope Pius X with the Apostolic Letter Vinea electa of 7 May 1909, in order to be “a center of higher studies for Sacred Scripture in the city of Rome to promote Biblical doctrine and all related studies according to the spirit of the Catholic Church”. From its foundation the Institute was entrusted to the Society of Jesus. The main location of the Pontifical Biblical Institute is in Rome, but there is also a branch in Jerusalem, which was started in 1927. More
ITALY, 1988, to honor the E. Quirino Visconti School, Scott 1730
The building shown on this stamp has been known for ages as the Roman College, the first and most important educational work of the Society of Jesus. It has long since passed into the hands of the state and has until recently been shared by two entities: the National Library and the Liceo E. Q. Visconti. The books given up by the Society at the time of the Suppression became the nucleus of the National Library of Italy in Rome. The building dates from 1583-1585 along with the Church of St. Ignatius in the same block, once the college chapel. The complex was the gift of Pope Gregory XIII, so that what began as the Roman College took the name of the Pontifical Gregorian University, located in this building until 1870. More