65 + 75 Centimes 1946 - Father Damien


65 + 75 Centimes 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 65 + 75 Centimes
Catalog code (Michel) BE 760
Catalog code Stamp Number BE B417 Yvert et Tellier BE 728 Stanley Gibbons BE 1179 AFA number BE 772 Belgium BE 728 Unificato BE 728
Stamp colour blue
Stamp use Semi Postal stamp
Print run 413.141
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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