Adoration of the Magi by Bassano
ITALY, the Christmas issue of 2006 shows Jacopo Bassano's Adoration of the Magi,
which is, as indicated on the stamp, in the Chapel of La Civiltá Cattolica, Scott 2778
PARAGUAY, 1946, Jesuit Works in Paraguay, Scott 440, C143This section is about things in Jesuit churches or houses, but this is not in a Jesuit church. The stamp honors "obras Jesuiticas" and Scott describes this as a "Colonial Jesuit Altar". So one might presume this is a Jesuit church — surely that is St. Francis Xavier in the niche on the right. It is, however, the church of Capiata, which is near Jesuit ruins, but it is not supposed to have belonged to the Society. A local tradition ascribes the altar though to a certain Master Gabriel, who was a student of the Jesuits.
PORTUGAL (Azores), 1997, Scott 444This gilded carving of an angel is from the church of the ancient Jesuit college in Porta Delgada, on São Miguel in the Azores.
SPAIN, 1965, 4th centenary of the Evangelization of the Philippines, Scott 1331
PHILIPPINES, 1976, 350th Anniversary of the Arrival of the Statue of the Virgin of Antipolo, Scott 1303-1304On March 25, 1626, Governor Juan Niño de Tabora sailed from Mexico for the Philippines, bringing with him an image of the Blessed Virgin. For three months his galleon, El Almirante, endured storms and even fire. He attributed his safe arrival in Manila to the presence of the image, and called for a celebration in her honor. The procession went from the Church of San Ignacio, the Jesuit Church in Intramuros, to the Manila Cathedral. At the Governor's death in 1632, the image was turned over to the Jesuits for the Church they were building in Antipolo. The Franciscans were the first founders of Antipolo; the Jesuits received it from them and administered the mission until 1768. Fr. Juan de Salazar, SJ had a stone church built from 1630 to 1633 specifically to receive the statue of Nuestra Señora de la Paz y Buenviaje (Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage), Patroness of the Galleons. The statue eventually crossed the Pacific, and returned, eight times on the Galleons of Acapulco. At each return to the Philippines it was met by the Captain General and the Archbishop of Manila and escorted back to the Antipolo Church, her original and permanent sanctuary. A Royal Decree of 1864 changed the assignment of churches and Antipolo was given to the Augustinian Recollects.
LUXEMBOURG, 1945, a semi-postal issue to help restore the cathedral after the war, Scott B121, 125
The statue of Our Lady is seen carried in procession and above the main altar.An important part of Luxembourg devotion is veneration of the image of Mary, Consolatrix Afflictorum (Comforter of the Afflicted) in the Cathedral of Luxembourg. The initiator of this devotion was a Jesuit priest, Father Jacques Brocquart († 1660). He was at the Jesuit College of Luxembourg, founded in 1603. Fr. Brocquart had been cured through the intercession of Mary and in honor of her on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, December 8, 1624, led a procession of students in the local Sodality outside the walls of the city on the Glacis Field. The statue was carried in that procession. Soon a chapel was built on the site and pilgrims began to come. By 1639 a book had been published detailing miraculous cures that had taken place at the shrine. An annual octave of prayer was begun and so many pilgrims came that during that time the statue was temporarily moved to the main collegiate church (now the Cathedral). At the Suppression statue, chapel and church were transferred to the local diocese, and in 1794, the statue was moved from the original shrine chapel and permanently placed above the main altar of the old Jesuit church. The church has been the cathedral of the Luxembourg diocese since 1870.
Immaculate Conception by de Juanes
SPAIN, 1979, painting by Juan de Juanes, Immaculate Conception, Scott 2164The Immaculate Conception was painted for the Jesuit Church of Valencia where it is still honored. It is considered the best work of Juan de Juanes. The Jesuit who commissioned the painting forced de Juanes to make many corrections to allow into the background invocations from the Litany of Loretto.
Immaculate Conception by Obici
ITALY, 1958, the Lourdes centennial, Scott 739-740This set features a composite picture of the statue of the Immaculate Conception which crowns the Colonna dell'Immacolata in the Piazza di Spagna (Spanish Steps) in Rome and the Basilica of Lourdes in the south of France. The original cast for the statue, made by the artist Joseph Obici, is to be found in a chapel of the Istituto Massimo, a Jesuit college in Rome.
COLOMBIA, 1968, the 39th Eucharistic Congress, Scott 780, C505
This monstrance, the work of Joseph de Galaz, is at the College of St. Bartholomew. The artist spent seven years at the task and the monstrance was blessed on the feast of St. Ignatius, July 31, 1707. Besides other precious stones, 1,485 emeralds are embedded in the gold. The people have dubbed it by the affectionate if inelegant name of La Lechuga (The Lettuce).
COLOMBIA, 1968, the 39th Eucharistic Congress, Scott 781a
1970, Philatelic Week, including the $5 monstance stamp, Scott 791
(above the an in semana)
ECUADOR, 1958, the 50th anniversary of the miracle of Saint Gabriel's College, Scott C320, C323
1977, honoring the poet Remigio Romero y Cordero with part of his A la Dolorosa del Colegio, Scott C612AThe image of Our Lady of Sorrows is kept within the Jesuit College of Saint Gabriel. The official page accompanying the release of the 1988 stamps tells the story: ". . . 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, when a picture of Our Lady of Sorrows to the wonder first of Quito and then of the entire country, opened and closed its eyes for more than twenty minutes before the amazed gaze of forty students of the college who are witnesses to the prodigy. From that time on, the history of the College of San Gabriel began to be written with a new start . . ."
ECUADOR, 1981, the 75th anniversary of the miracle, Scott 1015
ECUADOR, 2006, the 100th anniversary of the miracle, Scott 1779
ECUADOR, 1988, the 125th anniversary of the miracle, Scott, 1171-72
FRANCE, 1941, the coat of arms of Montpelier, Scott B127Notre Dame Des Tables is patroness of the town of Montpelier in France. In 1143 Guillem VI, Lord of Montpellier, brought a miraculous statue back from Holy Land. It was set up in a church called Our Lady of the Tables to distinguish it from Our Lady of the Castle, because the merchants had their tables near the former. The statue became the center of pilgrimage. The Church of Notre Dame Des Tables disappeared after the Revolution; but the cult transferred to the chapel of the Jesuits and is still in vogue. Her image is on the coat of arms of Montpelier.
Our Lady of the Rosary of Candonga
ARGENTINA, 2005, the chapel and statue of Our Lady of the Rosary of Candonga, Scott 2341In a painted wooden niche of the Jesuit Candonga Chapel, illuminated by natural light though the small cupola of the chapel, is preserved and venerated this statue of Our Lady of the Rosary. Carved of wood and painted by local artists, it as well as the chapel dates from about 1750.
VATICAN CITY, 1962, Scott C45-C46The Archangel Gabriel was sculpted by Philip della Valle for the large Annunciation group atop the tomb of St. John Berchmans in the Jesuit Church of St. Ignatius in Rome.
