Peru - Fr Bolla's documentary collection is a candidate for becoming a national cultural heritage

29 August 2023
Peru - Fr Bolla's documentary collection is a candidate for becoming a national cultural heritage

(ANS – Lima) – In recent days the Salesians in Peru received a visit from a delegation from the General Archives of the Nation of Peru, the governing body of the archives of the country, sent to examine the extraordinary documentary collection of the Servant of God Fr Luis (Luigi) Bolla, an Italian Salesian, missionary among the indigenous Shuar and Achuar of Ecuador and Peru (1932-2013). His work is a candidate to be recognised as a Cultural Heritage of the Nation.

Officials admired the ethnographic and pastoral work of the famous Salesian and congratulated the professional care with which it has been preserved. Fr Jesús Jurado, Vice-Postulator for Fr Bolla's Cause of Beatification, David Franco, Historian of the Congregation and Director of the Historical Archives and the Provincial Archivist Diego Aguado were present at the meeting with the delegation from the General Archives.

Fr Bolla's documentary collection contains his original diaries, books of Spiritual Exercises, letters, manuscripts, book drafts, almost a thousand photographs and various documents of this great Salesian missionary, whose Cause is still ongoing.

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