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This is a special post cards which commemorates the 125th Anniversary from the Calling of Our Lady of Ta' Pinu to Carmela Grima and Francis Portelli. This post card was published by the Ta' Pinu Sanctuary and was painted especially for the occasion by the Gozitan Artist Chev. Paul Camilleri Cauchi. It shows Carmela Grima and Francis Portelli going to pray in the chapel of Our Lady of Ta' Pinu.
On this same day, MaltaPost published also a special stamp using a design by Mr Anthony Grech, a member of the Gozo Philatelic Society.
These cards with the stamp on them were published in a limited number of 1000, and the supply was exhausted during this same day - i.e. on Sunday 22nd June 2008.
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