150th Anniversary of Sisters of Jesus and Mary

A taper lighting a candle, for 150 years of the Sisters in India.

Technical data Notes Condition

Date of issue November 13, 1992

Denomination Rs. 1

Quantity printed 1000000

Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik

Perforation comb 13 x 13½

Watermark No Watermark

Colours Blue | Light grey

Printing process Photogravure

Credit Sh. Sankha Samanta

Catalogue codes Michel IN 1368 Stamp Number IN 1423 Yvert et Tellier IN 1167 Stanley Gibbons IN 1518

Themes Anniversaries and Jubilees, Lamps and Candles

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A taper lighting a candle, the two flames rising together in a dark blue arch, with a “JM” monogram and the words “Sisters of Jesus and Mary 1842–1992” in Hindi and English, on a ₹1 stamp.

Sisters of Jesus and Mary

India Post issued this ₹1 stamp on 13 November 1992, a hundred and fifty years to the day after five French nuns and an Irish novice reached Agra, ten months after leaving France. Their order was founded at Lyon in 1818 by Claudine Thévenet to educate girls. At Agra the sisters opened a boarding school and an orphanage for Indian girls. By 1992 they served in 39 institutions in eight states, and in 11 rural projects.