On 9 October 2025, at the headquarters of the Diocesan Museum and Codex, the issue of the stamp “The excellence of cultural heritage” dedicated to the Codex Purpureus Rossanensis, granted by the Ministry of Companies and Made in Italy and distributed by Poste Italiane will take place.
The date of 9 October represents an important anniversary for the museum, as the tenth anniversary of the registration of the Codex Purpureus Rossanensis will occur on the “Memory of the World” list of UNESCO.
As part of this anniversary, the Archdiocese of Rossano-Cariati and the Diocesan Museum and Codex have a set of initiatives that can celebrate it.
For the occasion, in fact, alongside the ceremony of the philatelic and the special annulment ceremony, a prestigious moment will be experienced with the initiative “leafing through the Codex”, which provides for the extraordinary opening of the display case in which the precious Codex Purpureus Rossanensis and the exposure of the miniature chosen for the representation of the stamp is kept.
In addition, the exhibition “Codex Purpureus Rossanensis. 9 October 2015 – 9 October 2025, 10 years after registration in the Memory of the World”, in which the three facsiming editions of the Codex and the documentation produced in support of the candidacy of the Codex Purpureus Rossanensis for the insertion in the “Memory of the World”, accompanied by a ” documentary produced for the occasion.
The event will be held at 16:00 on Thursday 9 October 2025 at the headquarters of the Diocesan Museum and Codex in the historic center of Rossano in Corigliano-Rossano (CS).
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