Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero

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Cardinal Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero OCD (born October 3, 1913 in Genoa , Italy , † June 21, 1998 in Bocca di Magra ) was Archbishop of Turin .

Life

Alberto Ballestrero entered the Carmelite order in 1928 , took the name Anastasio and studied Catholic theology in various houses of his order . He received on 6 June 1936, the sacrament of Holy Orders , and then worked as a teacher and lecturer in several institutions of the Carmelite Order. In addition, he took on leadership tasks in the training of the next generation of the Order. From 1939 to 1942 he worked as a novice master , from 1942 to 1948 as prior and from 1948 to 1955 as provincial . From 1955 to 1967 he was Superior General of the Carmelite Order. During this time he was able to visit almost all 350 convents and 850 monasteries of his order around the world. Only the communist regime of Hungary forbade him entry. Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero participated in the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965 .

On December 21, 1973, Pope Paul VI appointed him . to the Archbishop of Bari . The episcopal ordination received Anastasio Ballestrero on 2 February in 1974 by the then prefect of the Congregation for Bishops , Sebastiano Cardinal Baggio . In 1977 the Pope made him head of the Archdiocese of Turin . Pope John Paul II accepted Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero on June 30, 1979 as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in the cardinals college and entrusted him with numerous representative tasks in the following years. Under Ballestreros aegis was 1978 Turin grave cloth scientifically studied exhibited in public again for the first time in 45 years and American US by forty scientists from the "Shroud of Turin Research Project" (STURP team) in detail, and in 1988 the tissue sample from the grave cloth for radiocarbon dating taken .

Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero headed the Italian Bishops' Conference between May 1979 and July 1985 , of which he had previously been Vice-President since May 1978. He resigned the leadership of the Archdiocese of Turin on January 31, 1989 for reasons of age. Cardinal Ballestrero died on June 21, 1998 in the Abbey of the Holy Cross at Fortino Santa Maria, Bocca di Magra. He was buried in the Carmelite monastery of Varazze.

On February 4, 2014, the diocesan beatification process was opened.

Fonts (selection)

  • At the sources of Carmel. Commentary on the original rule of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel. Translated from the Italian by Sr. M. Ancilla Oberkofler OCD. Klein-Theresien-Karmel Rankweil 2011.

literature

  • P. Giuseppe Caviglia OCD: Il Cardinale Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero. Torino 2008. ISBN 978-88-01-04041-8 .
  • P. Giuseppe Caviglia OCD, P. Silvano Giordano OCD, P. Girolamo Salvatioco OCD: Anastasio Ballestrero. Amare ... Ho amato! Testimonies di una vita. Milano 1997. ISBN 88-215-3442-1 .
  • Date principali di 'Una vita donata' . Ite ad Joseph, LXXXVI, No. 4 1998, pp. 4-6

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predecessor Office successor
Enrico Nicodemo (it) Archbishop of Bari (-Canosa)
1973–1977 		Andrea Mariano Magrassi (it) OSB
Michele Cardinal Pellegrino Archbishop of Turin
1977–1989 		Giovanni Cardinal Saldarini
Antonio Cardinal Poma Chairman of the Italian Bishops' Conference
1979–1985 		Ugo Cardinal Poletti
personal data
SURNAME Ballestrero, Anastasio Alberto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ballestrero, Anastasio Alberto Cardinal OCD
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian religious, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Turin
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Genoa , Italy
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1998
Place of death Bocca di Magra