Pierluigi Baima Bollone (photo Diana Bagnoli)
Pierluigi Baima Bollone is one of the most accredited Shroud scholars. For decades, he was the owner of the chair of forensic medicine both at the Faculty of Law and Medicine at the University of Turin and trained generations of doctors and jurists. Few cathedices can boast his authority. He was responsible for the meeting between the Shroud and the medicine and he must, in addition to the volumes dedicated to university research, about twenty books on the linen sheet today kept in a chapel of the Cathedral of Turin, inside a tucked teca.
Professor Baima Bollone, born in 1937, has never interrupted neither studies, nor research and his latest work entitled Jesus and the Shroud published by Saint Paul will be released shortly.
Professor, looking back, how much space of his life has been occupied by the Shroud?
«I think I can give them a fairly precise reply. I took care of the Shroud, on average, about two hours a day. Since 1976 ».
How did it start?
“In those years I took care of the search for blood traces of forensic medicine and Don Piero Coero Borga, who was the rector of the confraternity of the saint of Turin and secretary of the International Center of Sindonology, which I define as” the dad of the Shroud “, asked me for a technical opinion. I replied with a letter in which I detailed what I would do to understand the origin of the blood traces of the sheet. That letter, without knowing anything about it, became part of a book by Don Cero himself. And so I found myself, without my knowledge, to be counted as an expert on the Shroud ».
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(Photo above: Diana Bagnoli)
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