Manresa Jesuit Retreat House, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

The UNITED STATES, 2005, personalized photo postage

In the United States individual vendors are licensed by the United States Postal Service to produce valid postage personalized within certain limits to the design of the individual user. Techincally, these stamps are a form of meter labels. The above is an example of a self-adhesive product produced by Stamps.com.

Manresa Jesuit Retreat House, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, was founded in 1926 by Catholic laymen who maintained ownership of the property until 1960, when it was transferred to the Society of Jesus. But Jesuit directors ran the house and its retreats from the beginning. Manresa offers weekly conference retreats, year-round individually directed retreats of 3 to 30 days duration, workshops and numerous other offerings including a two-year long Internship in Ignatian Spirituality. In 1934 the original manor house burned and a new building, seen here, was completed in 1936. The building has been added onto several times since. More

Detroit Province Vocation Ministry, Detroit, Michigan
& Br. Jim Boynton, SJ

The Unites States, 2006, personalized photo postage

In 2006, when the Society was celebrating the triple Jubilee of Ignatius, Xavier and Faber, Edgar Sanchez a candidate for the Society of Jesus designed and ordered the above personaled stamp as a gift to the Detroit Province director of vocations, Br. Jim Boyton, SJ. The stamps shows the San Damiano cross and beneath it the image of Br. Boyton. The inscriptions read (clockwise from bottom): Br. James J. Boynton, SJ, Detroit Province, Vocation Ministry, jesuitdet.org; and to the right the logo for the Jubilee Year

.Georgetown University, Washington, DC

The UNITED STATES, 1989, the bicentennial of the university, Scott UX128

There are 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States, two of which are featured on United States postal cards. The first, appropriately enough, is the oldest of the 28, Georgetown University in Washington, DC, founded by John Carroll in 1789. On 22 November 1791, William Gaston of North Carolina, Georgetown's first student, took up residence at the College. The building on the postal card is Healy Hall, named for former Georgetown president Fr. Patrick Healy, SJ.

College of the Holy Cross, Worchester, Massachusetts

The UNITED STATES, 1993, the sesquicentennial of the college, Scott UX171

The College of the Holy Cross in Worchester, Massachusetts was founded by the second Bishop of Boston, Benedict Joseph Fenwick of the Society of Jesus in 1843, the diocese of Boston comprising all of New England at that time, and he gave to it the name of his Boston cathedral. The above postal card features O'Kane Hall, which houses administrative offices and Fenwick Theatre. It is named for Fr. Michael O'Kane, SJ, the eleventh president of the College. More

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