Just like Christmas, the season of Lent with Holy Week and Easter have always encouraged nations all over the world to issue special stamps to commemorate the Passion of Christ, as you can see in these 3 selections. The first one shows a stamp from Oberammergau, issued in 1960 when the famous play is performed every 10 years. One can see various symbols connected to the passion.
The second one is from an unknown Arab country with a set of 6 stamps representing various scenes from the passion. The third one is from Spain and shows Jesus carrying the cross, from a famous painting by El Greco, a Spanish artist also known as ‘the Greek.’
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