BALLERINI, GIUSEPPE. - Italian bishop and apologist, b. at Gualdrasco (Pavia) on 15 Sept. 1857, d. at Pavia on 12 June 1933. Having set out on the ecclesiastical career, he first studied at the seminary of his diocese, then at the Gregorian University in Rome. Ordained a priest on 23 Sept. 1882, he returned to his homeland to take up the teaching of theology at the seminary of his diocese. In 1910 he was appointed diocesan vicar and on 24 July 1924 bishop of Pavia.

B. owes his fame to the publication of numerous scholarly works or works of scholarly popularization, among them: Le pretese evoluzioni del dogma, della morale e della Chiesa cattolica (Monza 1898); L'originaria distinzione dei gradi gerarchici della Chiesa cattolica (ibid. 1901); Crisi religiosa o crisi intellettuale? (Pavia 1907); L'esistenza di Dio di fronte alla scienza e al pensiero moderno (3rd ed., Florence 1918); Gesù Cristo e i suoi moderni critici (2nd ed., Pavia 1921); Breve apologia per giovani studenti contro gli increduli dei nostri giorni: I, Dio-l'anima-l'uomo; II, La religione; III, Il Cristianesimo; IV, La Chiesa (6th ed., ibid. 1920-21).

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BIBL.: Necrologio, in La Scuola Cattolica, 61 (1933), p. 538; V. Bianchi-Cagliesi, Mons. G. B., in Acta Pont. Academiae Romanae s. Thomas Ag., nuova serie, 1 (1934), pp. 206-207.

Emanuele Chietini

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