Vatican Radio

   
VATICAN CITY, the 2nd anniversary of the Santa Maria di Galeria broadcasting site, Scott 262-263
1967, Scott C48, C52

Vatican Radio is a Jesuit-run rather than a Jesuit-owned institution. On February 12, 1931 the first broadcast of Vatican Radio took place. The Director General of Communications for Vatican City, Jesuit Father Giuseppe Gianfranceschi, had been planning a Vatican radio station for six years and had brought in Marconi himself to help bring it about. Gianfranceschi became the first director general, and the Jesuits have operated the station ever since.

 
VATICAN CITY, 1981, the Radio's 50th anniversary, aerogramme #19, and its FDI cancel

VATICAN CITY, 1981, the Radio's 50th anniversary, Scott 681-684, and the FDI cancel

 
VATICAN CITY, 2006, for the 75th anniversary of the Radio
the Vatican issued a series of 5 postal cards in a case (above left) with the above imprint (right).

 
Pope Pius XI with Marconi & Pope Pius XII and Pope John XXIII

 
Pope Paul VI with Pope John Paul I & Pope John Paul II

 
Pope Benedict XVI and the FDI cancel for postal cards

 
1991, meter stamp for Vatican Radio

The Vatican Observatory

VATICAN CITY, 1984, Scott 736

The Vatican Observatory, the oldest observatory in the Western world, is a Vatican institution, but it has been staffed by Jesuits since 1582. It is located outside Rome at Castel Gandolfo and also in Tucson, Arizona.

  

VATICAN CITY,1991, the centenary of the observatory, Scott 885-887

 
VATICAN CITY, 2015, 80th anniversary of the Vatican Observatory in Castel Gandolfo, Scott 1606-1607

 

 
VATICAN CITY, 1986, the 50th anniversary of the observatory's move to Castel Gandolfo, aerogramme #24, and its FDI cancel

1998, meter stamp from the Vatican Observatory

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