LIECHTENSTEIN POST on 3 July 1983 issued two First Day Cover stamps in marking the Europa (C.E.P.T.) Great Achievements of Human Genius series. The stamps highlighted two Benedictine personalities from the European Middle Ages: Notker Balbulus of St. Gall (40 Ct. - Swiss centime) and Hildegard of Bingen (80 Ct. - Swiss centime). Gerhard Gloser designed the postage stamps. Courvoisier (Helio Courvoisier) S. A. printed the stamps using a photogravure method. Postmark cancellation originated from Vaduz, Liechtenstein.
Notker the Stammerer/Notker of Saint Gall (c840-912) was a German Benedictine monk, priest, poet, musician, teacher, writer, historian and hagiographer. He wrote about martyrology, a collection of legends and a metrical biography of Saint Gall.
Hildegard of Bingen (c1098 -1179) was a prominent German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, and visionary of the Middle Ages. She is one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern history. She has been considered by a number of scholars to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany.
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