A fundamental Christian feast, the Easter, was celebrated first by the Jews that were under the Egyptian reign in the time of Moses. The Easter feast recorded in Nisan month (the first month of the Hebrew year) is presented by Moses as follows: And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying: Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season. In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it. (Numbers 9,1-3)
The Hebrew calendar drawn up according to the moon phases, records the date of the Easter feast on the first full moon night after the spring equinox. For this reason, the holiday does not have a fixed date as does the one celebrating Our Lord’s Birth.
The New Testament, in the Gospel of Luke, tells us that in His childhood, Christ used to attend the Easter feast: Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. (Luke 2, 41-42)
The sentence to death by crucifixion of our world’s Savior, Jesus Christ, represents for Christians a new beginning: the celebration of Christ’s sacrifice (a symbol of the lamb’s sacrifice) followed by the great Feast of the Resurrection. By His death and sacrifice, Christ offers people a highly valuable gift: the appurtenance to Our Lord’s people legitimated not by the statute of Abraham’s follower but by a single belief, the belief in Jesus Christ, the most beloved Son of God Almighty and the kind Mediator between God and the mankind.
To celebrate this important feast, Romfilatelia introduces into circulation the postage stamp issue Holy Easter 2013.
The image of the postage stamp with the face value of lei 1.00 reproduces the scene of Christ’s Resurrection existing on a celebrating icon from the Patriarchal Cathedral heritage, where there are kept, in high honour, the relics of Saint Dimitrios the New, the spiritual protector of the Cathedral and of Bucharest city.
The philatelic album is created into a limited edition of 600 pcs. and is equipped with the block of 2 stamps of the issue having graphic elements in gold foiling, numbered from 001 to 600, the First Day cover and a maximum card, both cancelled with the “first day” postmark applied in red and also clearly imprinted in gold foiling.
The thematic chromolithography is created into a limited run printing of 200 pcs. and is equipped with the stamp of the issue having the “first day” postmark clearly imprinted in red and also in gold foiling. These exclusive products are numbered from 001 to 200, and have the Romfilatelia embossed logo.
