JESUIT STAMPS PART I — Jesuits PART II — Jesuit Institutions PART III — Jesuitica

July 2 The Feast of St. John Francis Regis, SJ More REORGANIZED. The postal mark part of this site and the cinderella page have been integrated with the rest of the site, putting cancels with the stamps to which they belong, and integrating persons, places and events on cancels and cinderellas into the first three parts. Pardon any confusion this has caused. NORTH KOREA? On January 29, 2006 the Year of the Dog North Korea issued two stamps, one a 70 won stamp on a souvenir sheet, described as a classical Chinese painting of dog. It was in fact Heavenly Lion by the imperial court painter Br. Giuseppe Castiglione, SJ. Could this be a sign of better relations with the West? ON GOING THANKS. And my constant gratitude to Rafael Mateos, SJ and Mag. Wilhelm Remeš who continue to supply me with both philatelic material and information about Jesuit connections that I had been hitherto unaware of. PERSONALIZED BELGIAN STAMPS. October and November have also seen the addition of a good number of personalized stamps from Belgium, thanks to Frère Roland Francart, SJ, who is responsible for many of these, and who is editor of the Philatelic Bulletin Philabulle. Roland also points out to us a great web site on the personalized stamps of Belgium run by web master Gery Wauters. PHILIPPINE STAMPS. You will notice a large number of Philippine stamps which have been added in September and October which have a Jesuit reference. A very special thanks to Gregorio Paredes from the Philippines, who has called all of these to my attention. A BOOK by Walter Nissel and Wilhelm Remeš — Die Jesuiten in der Philatelie — is a wonderful source of information about Jesuits on stamps with more than 550 photos. Read more about it. Remeš is also making available to collectors and other interested in the Jesuits a custom made stamp, cancellation and envelope marking the triple Jesuit Jubilee year of 2005-2006. More Acknowledgments I am deeply indebted and grateful to Rafael Mateos, SJ, and to Wilhelm Remeš, author of Die Jesuiten in der Philatelie, fellow collectors of Jesuit Philatelica, who have shared with me their vast knowledge of this field and many of the images on this web site, and also to Fr. José M. de Vera, SJ, Director of the Press and Information Office of the Society of Jesus and Editor of the Jesuit Year Book for permitting me use of material from the Jesuit Year Book from 1963 to the present, particularly from the Philatelic Pages written by Francesco Salvo, SJ, Félix Sánchez Vallejo, SJ, Ètienne N. Degrez, SJ and others. These people have been my guide to Jesuit Philatelica, and at times the sole source of information or images of stamps with some Jesuit reference. My thanks also for contributions to this collection to: Joseph Billotti, SJ, Joseph Daoust, SJ, Dennis Dillon, SJ, Roland Francart, SJ, Noelene Keough, Bob Kolacki, Betsy Lewandowski, Luis Ong, Jr., Gregorio F. Paredes, Wilhelm Remeš, Vincent Romano, Marguerite St. Clare, Richard Sartor, Don Serva, SJ, and Robin Tong. This is a work in progress. I welcome your feedback, suggestions, corrections and contributions. Peter Fennessy, SJ Manresa Jesuit Retreat House Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

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Numerous Jesuits and Jesuit institutions have appeared or been alluded to on stamps, postal stationary, and postal markings from all around the world. Many of these are displayed on this site. And while they are not philatelic material, I have also included some 30 bank notes or coins with a Jesuit reference. Once the Jesuits were approved by Pope Paul III in 1540 (upper left and right), they began to spread as teachers throughout Europe and as missionaries to the new worlds East and West. When they were suppressed by Papal decree in 1773, their churches, schools, missions, and undertakings were lost, and the lives of individual Jesuits, some mentioned on this site, were dramatically changed. Once Pope Pius VII restored them in 1814, they began from scratch their apostolic work for the good of souls and of the Church. Their efforts before and since the Suppression have been recognized in various ways, among them through the philatelic items mentioned on this site. The United States of America in 1898 was the first to honor a Jesuit, Fr. Jacques Marquette, with a stamp. And since then many others have been honored as saints and martyrs, missionaries and explorers, educators and scholars, scientists and mathematicians, churchmen, statesmen, pastors and artists. May this collection call to mind their mission, lives and institutions in both the old and the restored Society.