Anastasio Ballestrero

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

Life

Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero entered the Carmelite Order in 1928 and studied in various houses of his order Catholic theology. He received on 6 June 1936, the sacrament of Holy Orders, and then worked as a teacher and lecturer in several facilities of the Carmelite Order. In addition, he held leadership roles in the formation of the Order of offspring. From 1939 to 1942 he served as master of novices, from 1942 to 1948 as a prior and from 1948 to 1955 as Provincial. From 1955 to 1967 he was Superior General of the Carmelite Order. During this time, he managed all over the world to visit almost all the 350 convents and monasteries of his Order 850. Only the Communist regime in Hungary forbade him entry. Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero participated in the years 1962-1965 at the Second Vatican Council.

1973 Pope Paul VI appointed him. Archbishop of Bari. The bishop ordained Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero on February 2, 1974 by the then Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio. 1977 gave him the Pope head of the Archdiocese of Turin. Pope John Paul II took Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero on 30 June 1979 as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in the College of Cardinals, and entrusted him in the following years with many representation tasks. Under Ballestreros aegis of the Turin grave cloth in 1978 was again issued for the first time in 45 years in public and forty American scientists of the " Shroud of Turin Research Project" ( STURP team ) thoroughly investigated scientifically, and in 1988 removed the tissue sample from the grave cloth for a radiocarbon date.

Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero, who led the Italian Bishops' Conference for many years, put the management of the Archdiocese of Turin in 1989, down from age. He died on 21 June 1998 in Holy Cross Abbey to Fortino Santa Maria, Bocca di Magra. He was buried at the Carmelite Monastery Verazze.

Writings (selection )

• At the sources of Carmel. Comment to the original Rule of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel. From the Italian by M. Sr. Ancilla Oberkofler OCD. Small Theresa Carmel Rankweil 2011.