Poland 2012 Following the Footsteps of Pope John Paul II
From Stamps of the World
- Issue date: 13th October 2012
- one value in a sheetlet of five stamps and five labels
- Design: Jan Wysocki (photomontage)
- Printed by: PWPW
- Print process: lithography
- stamp format height 31mm x width 43mm
- Perforations: 11.6 x 11.6, elliptical cutouts on horiz. sides
Following the Traces of Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II), third issue
Sheetlet (2 x 5): five horizontal rows of one stamp, a label and illustrated tabs
1.95zl ~ Wawel Cathedral, Cracow (exterior), and Karol Wojtyla (1920-2005, from October 1978 Pope John Paul II.
label: elevation of Wojtyla to rank of Cardinal: Pope Paul VI placing Cardinal’s biretta upon head of Wojtyla, who had been Archbishop of Cracow since 1964, on June 26, 1967
- Sheetlet tabs depict west end towers of the Church of St Floriana in Cracow, and statue of Pope John Paul II in Cracow
