URU - 2015 - #032 - BRIEF DESCRIPTION - BICENTENARY OF BIRTHDAY OF DON BOSCO

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Issue information:

Country: Uruguay
Date: September 8th, 2015
Printed: 15.003 copies

Stamp Shape and Size: Rectangular [39 mm. x 27 mm.]
Perforation: Circular
Gum: Water Activated

Block Configuration: 9 stamps [3 x 4] and one Label at position row 2, columns 1 to 3
Block Shape and Size: Rectangular [189 mm. x 115 mm.]

FDC Type: Official Cover Issued by Post Office
FDC Shape and Size: Rectangular [165 mm. x 105 mm.]

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Topics:

Brief Description:

A brief description of the Most Popular Topics of this Release are: Clearly Cristianism or Catholicism,and in particular the Instituteinside the Catolic Churchnamed Society of St. Francis de Sales founded by Saint John Bosco, whose 200th Anniversaryis honoured with this issue.

The Salesians of Don Bosco (or the Salesian Society, officially named the Society of St. Francis de Sales) is a Roman Catholicreligious institute founded in the late nineteenth century by Saint John Bosco to help poor children during the Industrial Revolution. The Salesians' charter describes the society's mission as "the Christian perfection of its associates obtained by the exercise of spiritual and corporal works of charity towards the young, especially the poor, and the education of boys to the priesthood".The institute is named after Francis de Sales, an early-modern bishop from Geneva.

St. John Bosco, in Italian: Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco, born on August 16th of 1815and passed away on January 31st of 1888, popularly known as Don Bosco, was an Italian Roman Catholic priestof the Latin Church, educator and writer of the 19th century. While working in Turin, where the population suffered many of the effects of industrializationand urbanization, he dedicated his life to the betterment and education of street children, juvenile delinquents, and other disadvantaged youth. He developed teaching methods based on love rather than punishment, a method that became known as the Salesian Preventive System. A follower of the spirituality and philosophy of Saint Francis de Sales, Bosco dedicated his works to him when he founded the Salesians of Don Bosco, based in Turin. Together with Maria Domenica Mazzarello, he founded the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, a religious congregation of nuns dedicated to the care and education of poor girls.

In 1876 Bosco founded a movement of laity, the Association of Salesian Cooperators, with the same educational mission to the poor. In 1875 he began to publish the Salesian Bulletin. The Bulletinhas remained in continuous publication, and is currently published in 50 different editionsand 30 languages.

Boscoestablished a network of organizations and centres to carry on his work. Following his beatification in 1929, he was canonized as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Pius XI in 1934.

The desing of the Issue, connects with Childhood as Don Bosco is shown listening to a Child, and also Hats, and Religious CostumesTopic could be added by the scene depicted. Then Block and FDC Cancellationsdid not add much Topics, just a reinforce to Childhood or Youth by the Block, and a kind of Path in the Cancellation.

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