Showing posts with label Jan Nepomucký. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jan Nepomucký. Show all posts

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Coat of Arms series - 2

 2000 issue with the coat of arms of Raseiniai, Tauragė and Utena

 2001 issue with Lazdijai, Biržai and Veliuona

 2002 issue with Anykščiai, Prienai and Birštonas

The coat of arms of Anykščiai features Šv. Jonas Nepomukas (St. John of Nepomuk), the patron saint of bridges. He was Czech (Sv. Jan Nepomucký) and was the symbol of the Catholic Counter Reformation in the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania.


Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Alytus 2011



This is a FDC of the commemorative stamps of Alytaus kraštotyros muziejus (Alytus regional museum) cancelled in Alytus on 04/06 2011. The first day cancellation depicts the wooden statue of saint John of Nepomuk which the museum owns. John of Nepomuk was a Czech saint (called Jan Nepomucký in Czech) popular in Lithuania during the Catholic counter-reformation period, depicted in numerous places throughout the country including the coat of arms of Anykščiai.