Visits to the Guadalupe Shrines in Los Angeles (Issued on January 25, 2019)

First day cover (click on the image for a larger image)

Our Lady of Guadalupe may seem to be a strange subject for a Scottish local post, but there is a rationale for putting Mexico's most sacred image on a stamp. I visit Los Angeles, California, United States, occasionally. I've noticed that the city has several shrines honouring Our Lady of Guadalupe. My two favourites are La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles (a historic church in the El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historical Monument district) and the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, which has an outdoor shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe and a piece of St. Juan Diego's tilma in a side altar indoors. I have long appreciated Our Lady of Guadalupe as Mother of the Americas (a title given to her by Pope John XXIII), so I visit these two shrines when I can.

 The stamp is imperforate and ungummed (requires glue).

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