On March 21, 1957, the Vatican released a set of four commemorative stamps, designed by Casimira Dabrowska, to mark the hundredth anniversary of the death of St. Domenico Savio.
Two designs were used. The 4- and 25-lire stamps are brown and green, respectively, and show St. Dominic Savio. They were printed from plates engraved by Mario Colombati. The 6- and 60-lire stamps, bright carmine and ultramarine respectively, show St. Dominic with his teacher, St. John Bosco, who was previously portrayed on two stamps of the Catholic Press Issue of 1936.
The stamps were printed from plates engraved by Mario Canfarini. All stamps were printed by the State Printing Office in Rome in sheets of sixty (8 x 8). In the upper corner of each sheet, the space normally occupied by a block of four stamps bears the inscription "One sheet of 60 stamps Value Lire ___." The stamps were valid until June 30, 1958.
