Sovereign Military Hospitaller
Order of St John of Jerusalem of
Rhodes and of Malta

First day of issue postmark – 2025 Holy Year

On the occasion of the issue of five stamps (definitive series) and a stamp in a sheet, dedicated to the 2025 Holy Year, the Poste Magistrali counter located inside the Magistral Palace in Rome, with public entrance from Via delle Carrozze 79, will use the special postmark on 14 April 2025.

The postmark, designed by Giancarlo Federico, depicts the logo specially created to celebrate the Jubilee Year 2025, which reproduces the octagonal cross, symbol of the Order of Malta, on which rests the representation of the famous lock of the entrance gate of the Magistral Villa, located in Rome on the Aventine Hill.

The postmark is completed by the inscriptions “SOVRANO MILITARE ORDINE DI MALTA”, “POSTE MAGISTRALI” and “GIORNO DI EMISSIONE”, “ANNO SANTO 2025”, as well as the date “14.IV.2025”.

Items for reposting, individually franked by the sender with stamps belonging to the relevant set, must reach the Poste Magistrali office by 16 June 2025. A suitable self-addressed envelope, bearing the Order of Malta stamps corresponding to the ordinary (Posta4) or priority (Posta1) postal rate in force in Italy, must be enclosed for the postmarked items to be returned under cover. For any return by registered mail, please contact Poste Magistrali in advance.

Items to be returned uncovered must reach Poste Magistrali by 28 April 2025 and must be individually marked as “Corrispondenza filatelica” (Philatelic correspondence) on the address side in indelible ink. Should this indication be missing, it will be applied by Poste Magistrali.