St. Francis

One of my favorite saints is St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint animals and nature. He and St. Catherine of Siena were also patron saints of Italy. St. Francis founded the Order of Friars Minor, the Order of Saint Clare (i.e., the Poor Clares), and the Third Order of Saint Francis.

The top set of stamps on this album page are in commemoration of the six-hundred year anniversary of the death of St. Francis. They depict him, the Basillica of St. Francis and San Damiano Church and Convent, both in Assisi, Italy.

Italian Colonial Institute

The Istituto Coloniale Italiano (Italian Colonial Institute) was an organization that worked on informing the Italian public about the colonies. It was meant to provide news and to encourage Italians to migrate to them. It was founded in 1908 in Rome by a group of politicians, diplomats, professors, and explorers of the time who had an interest in Africa and the expansion of Italy.

In the late 1920s, the Institute became part of the Fascists agenda to build an Italian empire. They changed their name first to the Fascist Colonial Institute, and in the late 1930s to the Fascist Institute of Italian Africa. After the second world war and the loss of the colonies, the Institute changed its agenda to focus on the rights of Italians living and working in the former colonies. It went through a couple more name changes and more reorganization over the decades that followed, but it continues today as the Italian-African Institute.

Note

As you can see, this page is complete. I’m satisfied with the layout design, but I didn’t cut some of the plastic mounts as well as could be. Otherwise, this page is fine.

Contains 11 spots: own 11 – 11 unused, 0 used.
Page is finished.
Album or Web Page Last changed Feb 4, 2025

Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot

own

catalog

subject

description

comment

St. Francis of Assisi

1.1	✓	102	Holy Land Pilgrimage	20c (apr 1926) comm., green
1.2	✓	106	St. Francis of Assisi	5+2.50₤ (apr 1926) semi-postal, olive
1.3	✓	105	St. Francis’ Death	1.25₤ (apr 1926) comm., sky blue
2.1	✓	103	St. Damiano	40c (apr 1926) comm., purple
2.2	✓	104	Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi	60c (apr 1926) comm., carmine

Pro Italian Colonial Institute

3.1	✓	107	Victoria with Sword & Shovel	5+5c (jun 1926) semi-postal, brown
3.2	✓	108	Victoria with Sword & Shovel	10+5c (jun 1926) semi-postal, olive
3.3	✓	109	Victoria with Sword & Shovel	20+5c (jun 1926) semi-postal, green
4.1	✓	110	Victoria with Sword & Shovel	40+5c (jun 1926) semi-postal, carmine
4.2	✓	111	Victoria with Sword & Shovel	60+5c (jun 1926) semi-postal, orange
4.3	✓	112	Victoria with Sword & Shovel	1+0.05₤ (jun 1926) semi-postal, dark blue

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.