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.
PARAGUAY, 1946, Jesuit Works in Paraguay, Scott 440, C143This section is about things in Jesuit churches or houses, but we start with something that is not. 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.
Immaculate Conception by de Juanes
SPAIN, 1979, paintings 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 his best work. 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 Eucharistis 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.
