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 International Peace Year 1986 Scott 768-772 The Vatican issued a set of five stamps issued to commemorate the International Peace Year of 1986. The International Peace Year was an initiative of the United Nations. Stamps were designed by Luca Vangelli.
Scott 768 Value: L50 Date Issued: 04/14/1986 Perforated: 14 x 14 Olive branch growing from a sword buried in the earth Isaiah 2:4 "He shall judge between nations, and impose terms on many people. They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; one nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again".
Scott 769 Value: L350 Date Issued: 04/14/1986 Perforated: 14 x 14 A messenger bearing tidings of peace Isaiah 52:7 "How beautiful upon the mountain are the feet of him who brings glad tidings, announcing peace, bearing good news, announcing salvation, and saying to Zion, Your God is King".
Scott 770 Scott L450 Date Issued: 04/14/1986 Perforated: 14 x 14 An olive branch for "blessed are the peacemakers" Matthew 5:9 "Bless too the Peacemakers; they shall be called sons of God".
Scott 771 Value: L650 Date Issued: 04/14/1986 Perforated: 14 x 14 A dove flying toward the sun Luke 2:14 "Glory to God in High Heaven, Peace on Earth to those on whom His favor rests".
Scott 772 Value: L2000 Date Issued: 04/14/1986 Perforated: 14 x 14 The Pope's hands releasing a dove Saint John Paul II "Peace is a value with no frontiers: North-South, East-West, Everywhere one people united in only one Peace". Below are excerpts from Section #3 ("Overcoming the current situation") from Saint John Paul II's "Message for the Celebration of the World Day of Peace, January 1, 1986: "There are those who claim that the present situation is natural and inevitable. Relations between individuals and between States are said to be characterized by permanent conflict.......Peace born from such an outlook can only be an arrangement.......not so much to resolve tensions through justice and equity but instead to manage differences and conflicts... Too those who think that blocs are inevitable we answer that it is possible, indeed necessary, to set up new types of society and of international relations which will ensure justice and peace on stable and universal foundations;.....the deepest roots of the opposition and tensions that mutilate peace and development are to found in the heart of man. It is above all the hearts and the attitudes of people that must be changed, and this needs a renewal, a conversion of individuals." References: |
