Secondo Pia
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Secondo Pia

Shroud of Turin, Holy Face of Jesus

Herausgegeben: Aristotle, Jacob
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Secondo Pia (1855 in Asti 1941) was an Italian lawyer and amateur photographer. He is best known for taking the first photographs of the Shroud of Turin on May 28, 1898. The image he obtained from the shroud has been approved by the Roman Catholic Church as part of the devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus. Pia was born in Asti, Piemonte, and although he was an attorney, he was interested in both art and science and as of the early 1870s began to explore the new technology of photography. In the 1890s he was a city councillor and a member of Turin's Amateur Photographers' Club.[1] He was a well k...