*From:* Joao Paulo Cota <[email protected]> *Sent:* 11 January 2025 17:36 *To:* [email protected] <[email protected]> *Subject:* New Book on St Francis Xavier Dear all, Please note that my recently published book titled 'Saint Francis Xavier - his life journey through stamps, prayer cards and lithographs' was launched recently on the 4th January 2025 at Museum of Christian Art (MoCA), Old Goa at the hands of His Eminence Cardinal Filipe Neri Archbishop Ferrao.
This is a very unusual book format and aimed at those interested in collectables, life of St Francis Xavier, history of the 1500's and Jesuits too - it is a perfect blend of all of these. Besides highly historical, accurate facts, it also contains a lot of personal information related to the Saint that many people are not aware off - including both the cardinal and secretary, who had graced the occasion at the book launch recently. It took a lot of research to condense so much information into 100 pages, that are fully illustrated that too. The aim of the book was to teleport the reader into the 1500's Goa so that they can immerse themselves into history at the time Francis Xavier walked upon this earth. The A4 book format ensures there is a carefully chosen image on every single page that matches the narrative - geographically, historically and politically.. The book also contains a section of full colour plates with Portuguese India philatelic items scanned at 600dpi for optimum resolution, as well pages containing some first class reliquaries found worldwide. It is priced at just Rs1,750 in India and £20 in the UK for direct pickup/meetup. The books can also be posted anywhere with extra shipping added. The first 100 copies contain specialized philatelic souvenirs and are priced differently (please see attached scans for examples). The book is hand numbered and it is currently available from Goa Collector's Corner at Margao and from London. It will soon be available at other places in Goa, when new stocks arrive soon. These can be shipped to anywhere in the world from either Goa or UK. The first 100 copies contain special philatelic items, where one can browse through a pdf file and choose the item/book number they want. Original Portuguese India Stamps, First Day Covers and world stamps are available for selection. This represents the countries where Saint Francis Xavier had travelled and had issued stamps on his honour. If anybody is interested in more information or if they want to book a copy, please do message me privately. ([email protected]) Kind regards, Joao Paulo N Cota London NB: I have attached some scans containing information about the book, including examples of the special pages that contain real philatelic items from Portuguese India (one is the 1952 FDC souvenir by LuMeNo and the other one is the 1931 stamp set printed at Nasik, both specially issued for the expositions on these years). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/33536ca0-c4ea-4d0c-9e0c-a0e297d0b332n%40googlegroups.com.
