honor - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2002 - 51 Euro Cent

Caritas is an independent Charitable Organization of the Catholic Church dedicated to charity, helping people in need without regard to religion, attitudes and ethnicity. The nine financially and personally independent diocesan Caritas organizations are subordinate to the respective diocesan bishop. In addition, there is a central office which has its own legal personality as an institution of ecclesiastical law. Caritas, with its 3,500 full-time and 40,000 volunteers worldwide, is involved in disaster and development assistance, providing home care facilities, old services, retirement and nursing homes, homeless people, refugees, debtors and addicts, and operates a 2-year-old School for social professions. Without Caritas and Protestant diakonia, many people in both Austria and abroad would be left to misery. The brand image depicts St. Elizabeth of Thuringia, the patron saint of widows, orphans, beggars, the sick, innocent victims, the needy, the Caritas, but also the baker and the Teutonic Order after a presentation from a glass window of the parish and pilgrimage church of Maria Buch, west of Judenburg. After an earthquake, the 40x60 cm glass panel was sold in 1939 with other objects to the Joanneum in Graz in order to be able to restore and renovate the church.