SPAIN, 1955, FDI cancel for Scott 836 -838 in honor of St. Ignatius Loyola
PARAGUAY, 1956, FDI cancel for Scott 520 -24

  
SPAIN, 1982 , show cancel featuring St. Ignatius Loyola & The Loyola Sanctuary
SPAIN, 1991, FDI cancel for Scott 2653 the 5th centenary of the birth of St. Ignatius Loyola
SPAIN, 1991, show cancel, St. Ignatius Loyola

  
PANAMA, 1991, FDI cancel for Scott 786, 5th centenary of his birth, showing his seal as general superior
CHILE, 1993, FDI cancel for Scott 1040, St. Ignatius Loyola and the Arrival of Jesuits in Chile
AUSTRIA, 2000, show cancel, St. Ignatius Loyola and Approval of Jesuits by Pope Paul III

Blessed Rupert Mayer, SJ
(1876-1945)

Father José Moret y Mendi, SJ
(1615-1687)

SPAIN, 1988, show cancel

Fr. José Moret, SJ was born in Pamplona in 1615 and died there in 1687. He entered the Jesuits and taught philosophy and theology in Pamplona, Oviedo and Segovia. In 1654 he was named Chronicler of the Kingdom of Navarre, the first to bear that title. His most important literary work is his three-volume Anales del Reino de Navarra. The IB (now IES) Padre Moret referred to in the cancel is named for him.

Father Manuel da Nóbrega, SJ
(1517-1570)

BRAZIL, 1970, show cancel from São Paulo, showing the Pátio Do Colégio where the city was founded
and honoring Fr. Manuel da Nóbrega, SJ on the 4th centenary of his death

Father Aurelio Espinosa Pólit, SJ
(1894-1961)

ECUADOR, 1994, FDI cancel for Scott 1339
the first centenary of the birth of Father Aurelio Espinosa Pólit, SJ

Fr. Sebastian Râle, SJ
(1652 -1724)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1988, Special Cancel for Fr. Rasle Days
featuring the Father Sebastian Rale S.J. Historic Monument in St. Sebastian Cemetery, Madison, Maine

Sebastian Râle (Rasle) was born at Pontarlier, France in 1652, entered the Jesuits at Dole in 1675, and after finishing his studies in 1688, sailed as a missionary to the New World. He worked mostly among the Abenaki on the Kennebec River in Maine. New England colonists suspected him of turning the natives against them and the British, and he was eventually shot by an English force that attacked his headquarters at Norridgewock Mission, Maine, 23 August, 1724. Râle left behind a dictionary of the Abenaki language. The cancel above marks the 1988 Madison-Anson Father Rasle Days, a annual celebration begun in 1976 with street dances, road races, golf tournament, fishing derby, queen contests, carnival games, street sales, barbecues, sometimes fireworks, and a parade as the grand finale. More - More - More

Saint John Francis Regis, SJ
(1597-1640)

Cancel for a special commemorative card

St. John Francis Regis, SJ (1597-1640) was a home missionary in the mountain country of southern France. St. John had the task of rekindling the faith in those regions devastated by the Catholic-Calvinist conflicts. He died of pneumonia as a result of his ministrations to the people. More

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