Victory & Mission

Italy Helps End WWI

On November 3, 1918, Italy was victorious over the Austrians at the Battle of Vittorio Veneto. This battle is said to have ended the Austro-Hungarian empire and led to the end of World War I a week later.

The stamps on the bottom row of this album page are of the goddess, Victoria and are in celebration of that victory. It’s surprising that for such a major military accomplishment that the stamps for this event were not more elaborate. These seem fairly dull to me. They did another issue of stamps to commemorate this event, which gave them an opportunity to print stamps with more fanfare, but they had the same design: you can see them on Page 12 of this album.

Vatican Missionaries

The four two-color stamps on the last two rows, depicting Jesus preaching to people, were to commemorate the three hundred year anniversary of the Sacred for the Propagation of the Faith. In Latin it’s called, Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide. That’s sometimes shortened to Propaganda Fide. It’s an office or department of the Vatican that’s in charge of missionary work of the Catholic Church. That short name, as written on these stamps, can be misleading: it makes me think it says propaganda. But in the sense of propagation, meaning to spread a message, it’s not necessarily bad. I guess we use the Latin version, propaganda to me spreading skewed messages and philosophies. Perhaps to some people, that’s what Cathlic missionaries did when they came to their lands, spreading their perspective on reality.

The small images of in the top left and right corners are of famous saints like St. Dominic, St. Teresa of Ávila, St. Francis, and others. Their orders were famous for missionary work.

Note

This is another completed page. I don’t like the look of these four stamps of Jesus. They look hoaky, maybe tacky or gaudy. And the Vittorio Veneto ones have style I don’t like much either. But I’m glad to have all of these stamps, to have the page finished.

Contains 8 spots: own 8 – 8 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

Battle of Vittorio Veneto

1.1	✓	51	Vittorio Vento	10c (apr 1922) comm., red & carmine
1.2	✓	50	Vittorio Vento	5c (apr 1922) comm., olive green
2.1	✓	52	Vittorio Vento	15c (apr 1922) comm., slate
2.2	✓	53	Vittorio Vento	25c (apr 1922) comm., ultramarine

Missionary Office: 300 Years

3.1	✓	61	Jesus Preaching	20c (oct 1923) comm., orange & olive
3.2	✓	62	Jesus Preaching	30c (oct 1923) comm., orange & carmine
4.1	✓	63	Jesus Preaching	50c (oct 1923) comm., orange & purple
4.2	✓	64	Jesus Preaching	1₤ (oct 1923) comm., orange sky 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.