Mikael Agricola FDC

the 450th anniversary of the death of Bishop Mikael Agricola (1510-1557), a reformer of the Finnish church and the "father of Finnish literature".
Finland Post issued a miniature stamp sheet with two stamps to commemorate the jubilee year of Agricola on 7 March 2007.

One of the stamps on the Mikael Agricola miniature sheet shows the first publication of Finnish literature, Agricola's Abckiria (ABC Book, probably from 1543). The book was both an ABC and a catechism: it contains letters and numerals and gives instructions for how to read them, in addition to which it included the Ten Commandments, the Apostolic Creed, the Lord's Prayer and others. No complete copies of the first edition have survived.

The subject of the other postage stamp on the miniature sheet is a drawing of a preacher from Agricola's 1544 translation of the Book of Prayers. The miniature stamp sheet also bears an illustration of Agricola's signature from his letter to the King of Sweden as well as the curlicue insignia for the Agricola jubilee. The insignia was designed by Mari Mero. The theme for the jubilee year is "Your Voice, Your Language".