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For this year's Viaggi di Santo Papa (Travels of the Holy Pope) issue, UFN engaged six artists to design a set of stamps. The papal travel to Mexico issue was designed by Orietta Rossi. Gabriella Titotto prepared the stamp of the visit to migrant camps on the Greek island of Lesbos, during which Pope Francis was accompanied by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and the Archbishop of Athens. A visit to Armenia was the subject of Daniela Longo's stamp. Daniela Fusco created a design for the visit to Poland. Patrizio Daniele produced a design for the papal visit to Georgia and Azerbaijan as did Chiara Principe for Francis's visit to Sweden. The postal value of each stamp was €0,95 and each was printed in sheets of ten. Each of the stamps is designed to represent unique features of the countries visited. For example, the Mexico stamp includes the Virgin of Guadalupe while the Lesbos design includes vignettes of Patriarch Bartholomew I and Archbishop Ieronymos II, and a group of migrants. The design of the visit to Armenia includes the Armenian Genocide Memorial at Yerevan and the visit to World Youth Day in Poland includes imagery associated with Auschwitz and the Divine Mercy painting of Jesus. For the visit to Georgia and Azerbaijan, the design incorporates a cathedral in Tbilisi and a mosque in Baku. Pope Francis' visit to Sweden depicts the Pope and Lutheran Bishop Munib Yunan signing a declaration at the Cathedral of Lund. View the reference below for an awesome commentary and designs by these six artists that appeared in the 2018 Vatican Notes: Volume: 66 Issue: 376 Page: 24-35. Reference: Commentary and Designs by Six Artists Technical Details: Scott Catalogue - 1662 - 1667 Date Issued - 23 November 2017 Face Value - €0,95, €0,95, €0,95, €0,95, €0,95, €0,95 Perforations - 13.3 x 13.3 Printing Process - Offset Printer - The Lowe Martin Group (Canada) Max Printed - 120,000 |
| (Source - Vatican Notes: Volume: 66 Issue: 375 Page: 4-6) |
