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On September 7, the Vatican Postal and Philately Service will present a commemorative stamp to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the proclamation of the dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
It was on November 1, 1950, when Pope Pius XII, with the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus, declared that the Immaculate Mother of God, Mary, “having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.”
Postal Stamps Commemorating the Canonization of Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati
A portrait of Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901–1925), painted by Alberto Falchetti (1878–1951) and owned by the Frassati family, along with a photograph of Carlo Acutis (1991–2006) wearing a red T-shirt and a backpack, taken on Mount Subasio near Assisi during one of his last school trips before his untimely death — these are the two images featured on the stamps dedicated to the canonization of the two Blessed, scheduled for the morning of Sunday, September 7, in St. Peter’s Square, presided over by Pope Leo XIV.