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Vatican Issues New Stamp Dedicated To Pope Francis’ Visit To Armenia.

DiasporaVatican Issues New Stamp Dedicated To Pope Francis' Visit To Armenia.

The Vatican has issued a new stamp on the fourth anniversary of the Pope’s visit to Armenia. The Holy See has thus joined the UN’s initiative, which has declared 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH), ArmRadio reports, per the Armenian Embassy to the Holy See.

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The stamp depicts Pope Francis and His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, watering the symbolic vine planted in Noah’s Ark, thus confirming that the theme of plant and earth health is a spiritual value.

Pope visited Armenia in June 2016. In 2017 the Vatican issued stamps dedicated to the Pope’s “Visit to the First Christian Nation.”

Designed by Daniela Longo, one the stamps depicted Pope Francis in front of the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan.

Pope Franics visited the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial on June 25, 2016. Within the framework of a three-day visit to Armenia Pope Francis denounced the “ideologically twisted, planned genocide of Armenians starting in 1915.”

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