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The 2016 Easter issue consists of €0,95 and €1,00 values featuring stained glass details from the parish church of St. Angela Merci in Milan. The original art was produced by Giovanni (Janos) Hajnal (1913-2010), whose work has appeared on other Vatican City issues. 
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The miniature sheet contains two stamps of both values. Resurrexit Christus Pasqua MMXVI (Christ rose again on Easter 2016) is printed on the miniature sheet. The €0,95 value depicts Jesus dying on the Cross and the €1,00 stamp depicts His Resurrection. 			 			 
Angela Merici (21 March 1474 – 27 January 1540) was an Italian religious educator who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church. She founded the Company of St. Ursula in 1535 in Brescia, in which women dedicated their lives to the service of the church through the education of girls. From this organization later sprang the monastic Order of Saint Ursula, whose nuns established places of prayer and learning throughout Europe and, later, worldwide, most notably in North America. 
During her life, Merici had often prayed at the tombs of the Brescian martyrs at the Church of St. Afra in Brescia. She lived in small rooms attached to a priory of the Canons Regular of the Lateran. According to her wishes, after her death, she was interred in the Church of St Afra to be near the martyrs' remains. There her body remained until the complete destruction of this church and its surrounding area by Allied bombing during the Second World War, on 2 March 1945, in which the parish priest and many townspeople died. The church and corresponding buildings were afterwards rebuilt and reopened on 10 April 1954. The church was consecrated on 27 January 1956, with a new dedication to Saint Angela Merici, while the Parish of St. Afra was transferred to the neighboring Church. 
Angela Merici was beatified in Rome on 30 April 1768 by Pope Clement XIII. She was later canonized on 24 May 1807 by Pope Pius VII.

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