ECUADOR, 1947, Scott C165-168

Juan Manuel de Velasco was born in Riobamba, Ecuador in 1727, and having studied with the Jesuits in his home town, entered the novitiate at Latacunga, studied philosophy and theology, and was ordained in 1753. Over the following years, traveling to all parts of his native land, he gathered information about its history, legends, flora and fauna. When an edict of Charles III expelled the Jesuits from Ecuador, he retired to Faenza, Italy and wrote his Modern History of the Kingdom of Quito and the Chronicles of the Jesuit Province of the same Kingdom, and other works. He died in Italy in 1792, but his work enshrines the earliest stories of Ecuador, and he is now regarded as a spiritual founder of his nation.

 

 
ECUADOR, 1980, the 150th anniversary of the 1830 constitution
which drew such inspiration from Velasco's writings that he is pictured on both stamps and souvenir sheet, Scott 996-998, C702

 
ECUADOR, 1992, the bicentennial of his death, Scott 1298

  
ECUADOR, 1948, the Conferencia Economica Grancolombiana on 24 May 1948, Scott C175
1950, to promote Alfabetizacion or adult literacy, Scott C216-17

  
ECUADOR, 1949, the Eucharistic Congress of June 1949, Scott C207-209

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