New Map Issue From Slovenia

On September 25, 2009, Slovenia Post issued a single stamp commemorating the work of Bishop Anton Martin Slomšek and marking the transfer of the Lavantine diocese from Sankt Andrä Austria to Maribor Slovenia in 1859. Bishop Slomšek died in Maribor in 1862. On 19 September 1999, John Paul II announced Slomšek’s beatification in Maribor, instead of Rome, which is the usual custom. The €0.92 denomination stamp depicts an image in the left foreground of Bishop Slomšek with a background map showing what appears to possibly be the historical border between Austria and Slovenia, along with the cities of St. Andraz and Maribor. In the right foreground, an image of a Bishop’s Mitre, some books and letters are shown.

Slovenia 2009-09-25

The text below is an automated translation from the Slovenia Post web site. [ no responsibility is assumed for the content or accuracy of the following text in italics, shown below. ]

In 2009 we celebrate Slomšek year that it wishes to present Slomšek cultural and historical, pastoral and religious-ethnic dimension of his life and work, especially to move the diocesan headquarters in Maribor (4 September 1859), the establishment of catholic high school in Maribor (14 October 1859) , and the establishment of Mohor Guild St. Cyril and Methodius to the unity of Christians, Slomškova Sunday school with the famous manual blessed and Nežica in Sunday school and its extensive religious, ethnic and spiritual functioning, which is achieved as a shepherd and a teacher with his preaching and issuing of various books, manuals, songbooks and molitvenikov .

In Slomškov time fall under graško Maribor diocese. The border between the then lavantinsko (now Maribor) and graško diocese has taken place for high Vuhred Pohorje to Slovenian Bistrica, Ptuj, Sundays and the Upper Great Radgona. Bishop A. M. Slomšek with his wisdom and perseverance to reach to the diocesan boundaries to postpone the north of the Drava river, on the border line, which in 1918 became the State border between Austria and Yugoslavia. General Maister has defended and endorsed what is the diocesan bishop limit perpetuate A. M. Slomšek, which was established catholic high school in his opening speech, said to become even Maribor what was in his time View and Salzburg, a strong focus of spiritual and material blagra Slovenian nation.

From the above we can see how it had a literary historian Kidrič France when he wrote that the blessed bishop A. M. Slomšek occupies in the history of our spiritual leader.