Stamps will help restore St Peter’s Square colonnade-CathNews NZ

Stamps will help restore St Peter’s Square colonnade

Friday, November 30th, 2012

The Vatican is selling stamps to raise funds for an ambitious restoration of the 17th-century St Peter’s Square colonnade, estimated to cost $NZ22 million.

The Vatican’s Philatelic and Numismatic Office, which sells commemorative coins and stamps featuring popes, saints and the like, is offering a special 20-euro ($NZ31.50) stamp and certificate package to help offset a recession-induced drop in corporate sponsors for the project.

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