AUSTRIA – Postcards from Salzburg, Austria to Braga, Portugal.

Postcard posted on April, 24 2011.

(Special thanks to my friend Ricardo Pereira)

AUSTRIA – Postcards from Viena, Austria to Braga, Portugal.

 

Postcard posted on April, 22 2011.

(Special thanks to my friend Ricardo Pereira)

AUSTRIA – Cover from Wien, Austria to Braga, Portugal

First Day Cover of the Austrian Christmas 2010 stamp issue, inspired this year by the valuable manuscript document from Cistercian Abbey Rein Monastery, posted on November, 19 2010.
(Special thanks to my friend Edna Chin)

This year’s Christmas stamp issued by Austria shows part of an antiphonal of the Cistercian monastery at Rein in Styria.
The choral manuscript with precious initials dates from the second half of the 15th century and once served as a liturgical book for the hourly prayers of the local monks. The stamp shows the “classical scene” of the birth of Christ in the artistic interpretation of the early Renaissance. The history of Rein monastery dates back to 1129. St Bernard was still alive when the monastery was founded in what was at the time a densely forested valley, and Margrave Leopold the Strong brought the first monks here from Ebrach in Franconia. Monks of the Cistercian Order have lived here without interruption since this time, pursuing, alongside their spiritual work, agriculture and pisciculture. In addition, they were in high demand as craftsmen and industrious writers; over 400 manuscripts, numerous incunabula (including Johannes Kepler’s calendar table from 1607!) are carefully stored in the monastery library. Starting out from Rein, the oldest Cistercian monastery in the world, four further abbeys were founded: Wilhering, Schlierbach, the New Monastery in Wiener Neustadt and Sticna in Slovenia. Numerous Styrian princes are buried in Rein monatery. The basilica itself is without doubt one of the largest and most attractive churches in Styria. The originally three-nave Romanesque church was consecrated in 1138, and subsequently, particularly in the 18th century, further embellished by renowned artists and magnificent craftsmen – such that the Baroque basilica today radiates a beauty that is an invitation to celebrate and meditate. In summer 2006, restoration work on the Chapel of St Mary revealed the foundations of the former Romanesque chapter house. An extraordinary discovery was also made, the grave of Margrave Leopold, the benefactor of Rein and the founder of Styria. The oldest Madonna in the monastery was given a new worthy home here, where the monks of Rein gather several times a day to pray together.

Date of Issue: 19-11-2010
Type: Commemorative stamp
Denomination: 0.55€
No. of Stamp in Set: 1
Size:
Perforation:
Color: Multicolor
Process of Printing: offset
Protection of the stamp:
Printer: Österreichische Staatsdruckerei
Designer: Adolf Tuma
(source: Austria Post)

Beautiful Christmas card

Sent yesterday 22 of October 2010

Registered First Day Covers of the most recent Portuguese stamp issue that commemorates the 150 years of friendship treaty between Portugal and Japan sent to friend in Austria and Singapore and a registered envelope with a book to a special friend in Madeira-Portugal.

AUSTRIA - Covers from Wien, Austria to Braga, Portugal

Two First Day Covers posted on May, 28 2010.
(Special thanks to my friend Edna)

AUSTRIA - Cover from Wien, Austria to Braga, Portugal

(Austria Europa 2010 'Children's Books', date of issue: 11 June 2010)

(Europe Day postcard)

Cover with Austrian Europa 2010 – Children’s Books stamp posted on June, 11 2010.
(Special thanks to my friend Edna)

AUSTRIA - Cover from Wien, Austria to Braga, Portugal

Cover posted on June, 12 2010.
(Special thanks to my friend Edna)

Last mail

Dear all,
Luis, as some of you have already known from messages in FB, for now is not able to be in front of PC, due the recovering from two interventions to his eye.
As time is not so much, I'm publishing the last received covers from friends in only one photo/post.

I want to thak you to all for the messages sent in last days.
Be sure that were a good support in these 'hard' days.

From: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Hong-Kong, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine.

AUSTRIA - Cover from Wien, Austria to Braga, Portugal

Cover posted on May, 10 2010.

(Special thanks to my friend Edna)

Sent today 24 of May 2010

FDC, covers and Postcard with stamps posted to Austria, Finland and Hong-Kong.

AUSTRIA – Postcard from Wien, Austria to Braga, Portugal

Postcard posted on May, 10 2010.

(Special thanks to my friend Edna)

AUSTRIA – Postcard from Wien, Austria to Braga, Portugal

Official Austrian Post Office sent on December, 12 2009.

AUSTRIA - Cover from Wien, Österreich to Braga, Portugal

First Day Cover posted on November, 6 2009.

(Special thanks to my friend Edna)

AUSTRIA – Cover from Wien, Austria to Braga, Portugal

Official cover posted on May 2009.

AUSTRIA – Cover from Wien, Austria to Braga, Portugal

Cover posted on July, 20 2003.