Description: Vatican CityCivitas Vaticana, Città del Vaticano28th February 19611100th anniversary of the death of Saint Meinrad of Einsiedeln.The stamps depict:Saint Meinrad;statue of Our Lady of Einsiedeln, a "Black Madonna", patroness of Einsiedeln Abbey;Einsiedeln Abbey.Saint Meinrad (c. 797 – 21 January 861) was a hermit and a Roman Catholic saint. Meinrad was born into the family of the Counts of Hohenzollern and was educated at the abbey school of Reichenau, an island in Lake Constance, under his kinsmen, the Benedictine Abbots Hatto and Erlebald. There he became a monk and was ordained.After some years at Reichenau, he established his hermitage on the slopes of Etzel Pass, taking with him a wonder-working statue of the Virgin Mary which he had been given by the Abbess Hildegarde of Zurich. Because so many people sought him out, in 835 he retreated to a hermitage in the forest on the site of today's monastery in Einsiedeln. Inspired by the Desert Fathers, Meinrad practiced a strict asceticism. Gifts presented to him he passed on to poor. He was killed in 861 by the thieves Richard and Peter who wanted the treasures which pilgrims left at the shrine. Meinrad is known as the Martyr of Hospitality.Over the next eighty years, the hermitage was occupied by a succession of hermits. One of them, named Eberhard, previously Provost of Strasburg, erected a monastery, Einsiedeln Abbey, and became its first abbot. Meinrad was originally buried at Reichenau, but his relics were returned to Einsiedeln in 1029.Catalogue Numbers: Michel VA 363-365 Stamp Number VA 298-300 Yvert et Tellier VA 316-318 Stanley Gibbons VA 340-342 Unificato VA 298-300 Sassone VA 298-300 Bolaffi VA 298-300
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Year of Issue: 1961
Quality: Mint Never Hinged/MNH
Region of Origin: Europe
Type: Postage
Country: Vatican
Topic: religion, catholic, madonna, hermit, saint, swiss, Mary, virgin
