1,75 + 18 Francs 1946 - Father Damien


1,75 + 18 Francs 1946 - Father Damien
Added by Bart Perdieus
General Description : Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai, SS.CC. (Dutch: Pater Damiaan or Heilige Damiaan van Molokai; January 3, 1840 – April 15, 1889), born Jozef De Veuster, was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious institute. He won recognition for his ministry to people with leprosy (also known as Hansen's disease), who had been placed under a government-sanctioned medical quarantine on the island of Molokaʻi in the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.
Face value 1,75 + 18 Francs
Catalog code (Michel) BE 762
Catalog code Stamp Number BE B419 Yvert et Tellier BE 730 Stanley Gibbons BE 1181 AFA number BE 774 Belgium BE 730 Unificato BE 730
Stamp colour brown carmine
Stamp use Semi Postal stamp
Print run 411.088
Issue date 30/07/1946
Designer Anto Carte
Print technique photogravure
Perforation 11 1/2
Height 39.00 mm
Width 28.00 mm
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