{"id":868171,"date":"2026-10-02T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868171\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:12:09","slug":"a-new-christmas-madonna-and-child-stamp-is-on-the-way-usps-employee-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868171\/","title":{"rendered":"A new Christmas Madonna and Child stamp is on the way \u2013 USPS Employee News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img width=\"500\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MadonnaChildStamp_RightAlignd_story.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"A stamp showing a painting of the Virgin Mary wearing red and holding the Christ child in her lap\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> The Postal Service will release the Christmas Madonna and Child stamp on Friday, Oct. 2.\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Postal Service will issue its latest Christmas Madonna and Child stamp on Friday, Oct. 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The design features an image of the Virgin Mary and the Christ child from the collection of the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA. It was painted around the year 1500.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Art historians in the 1920s attributed the work to an unnamed artist known as the \u201cMaster of the Embroidered Foliage\u201d because the painted greenery resembles embroidery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scholars now believe that the painting was produced in a workshop by several artists and assistants \u2015 as was common practice at the time \u2015 likely in Brussels or in Bruges, in modern-day Belgium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The artwork depicts a large central figure of Mary in red garments with symbolic background details. A red border surrounds each stamp, highlighting Mary\u2019s clothing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Greg Breeding, an art director for USPS, designed the stamp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2011, the Postal Service has issued a new Madonna and Child stamp approximately every two years. These stamps usually highlight fine art from the collections of museums in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Forever stamp will be available in books of 20 at Post Offices and on <a href=\"https:\/\/store.usps.com\/store\/product\/christmas-madonna-and-child-stamps-S_686204\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">usps.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.usps.com\/2026\/10\/02\/a-new-christmas-madonna-and-child-stamp-is-on-the-way\/mailto:link@usps.gov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Email<\/a> us your feedback. Your comments could be included in our \u201cMail\u201d column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Postal Service will release the Christmas Madonna and Child stamp on Friday, Oct. 2. The Postal Service&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-868171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}