Vintage US Poster Stamp St. Anthony's Protection In Regard To Mail

Vintage US Poster Stamp St. Anthony's Protection In Regard To Mail Unused No Gum. The Origin Of St. Anthony Guide S. A. G. The Custom Of Invoking St. Anthony's Protection In Regard To Mail Is Based On A Tradition Which Dates Back To 1729. It Is Related That A Certain Merchant Left Spain For Peru. Although His Wife Wrote Several Letters To Him She Never Received A Reply, Which Greatly Worried Her. Finally She Invoked St. Anthony's Aid. Filled With Childlike Confidence She Went To The Franciscan Church In Oviedo Where She Placed A Letter In The Hands Of A Statue Of St. Anthony Begging Him To Deliver It To Her Husband. Later She Returned To The Church And To Her Great Joy Found, In Place Of Her Letter, A Reply From Her Hus- Band, Together With Several Gold Pieces. The Letter, Which May Still Be Seen At Oviedo, Is Dated Lima, July 23, 1729, And States That The Wife's Letter Was Delivered By A Franciscan Father. From This Grew The Laudable Custom Of Writing S. A. G. On Letters And Of Sealing Mail With St. Anthony Guide Stamps.

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