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Maria Valtorta, born in Caserta on March 14, 1897, and died on October 12, 1961 in Viareggio, was an Italian Catholic mystic. She is the author of The Gospel as Revealed to Me, which recounts the life of Jesus, as well as other works presenting in the form of dictations teachings of Jesus, of the Virgin Mary, of the Holy Spirit, of her guardian angel, and of various saints.
For 2000 years, several Catholic mystics have seen snippets of the Gospels. But only three people have had the complete vision: Marie d’Agréda in the 17th century, Anne-Catherine Emmerich in the 19th century, and Maria Valtorta in the 20th century.
Maria Valtorta was the only one of the three to transcribe by her own hand and in real time the hundreds of visions of the life of Jesus she received. From her bed where she was bedridden, she then produced some 13,000 handwritten pages in 3 and a half years, sometimes writing up to 18 hours in a row, leaving us with the most voluminous biography of Jesus in history.
Although Pope Pius XII, after reading, gave his approval as early as 1948 for the publication of these texts, officials of the Holy Office — thinking it was a fictional and personal production trying to pass as revealed — opposed the work of Maria Valtorta and put it on the Index of Forbidden Books, without formally accusing it of any dogmatic, moral, or historical error.
For 70 years, saints, cardinals, leading theologians and biblical scholars, as well as a multitude of laypeople from all social backgrounds, have been enthusiastic about the work of this woman who left as a legacy an "inestimable treasure of universal literature," according to the words of Blessed Gabriele Maria Allegra, the first translator of the entire Bible into Chinese.
Her main work, The Gospel as Revealed to Me, continuously published, is now translated into 30 languages[1].
A decade after Maria Valtorta’s death, researchers began to take interest in her texts containing very many biological, geological, astronomical, topographical, cultural details. To date[2], 19,930 of these details have been identified as plausible and relevant; and dozens of sites described by Maria Valtorta (Gerasa, Bethsaida, the aqueduct of Tiberias, the synagogue of Biram, the tomb of Hillel, the Jezreel enclosure, the dam of Ptolemais, the palace of Lazarus in Jerusalem, etc.) were excavated or confirmed in excavations, many years after her death. If their authenticity is concluded, Maria Valtorta's writings allow, for the first time, tracing the historical and geographical framework of Jesus Christ’s public life, week by week, village by village, in coherence with the 373 narrative units of the four canonical Gospels that her visions fully cover without omissions, contradictions, or inconsistencies.
Ten authoritative theologians scrutinized this work thoroughly and found no opinions opposed to the faith or morals, even when novel opinions or new facts were expressed here and there. In this context, they counted explicit or implicit references to 1,166 chapters of the Bible out of a total of 1,334 it contains. Among these were at least 3,133 references to the Septuagint used at the time of Jesus, even though Maria Valtorta knew nothing of the subject, having left school at age 16 and receiving her first Bible only at age 46, at the moment of her first visions.
No commercial life of Jesus presents such closeness and conformity to the canonical Scriptures.
Maria Valtorta draws her vocation from her mystical Soul, from the Struggles and Trials she had to face to become this "pen of God," humble and docile, as she was nicknamed[3].
She discreetly mentions, in some personal notes, the sufferings this Mission causes her. But Jesus, in a dictation, is more explicit and of a more general scope:“If you knew what slavery it is to be God’s instrument […] It involves sleep, hunger, sufferings, fatigue, the desire to think about something else, to read writings that are not words from a supernatural source, to speak and hear ordinary things, the desire to be and live like everyone else, even if only for a single day: all this, the inexorable burn of God's will prevents having and realizing it. Over all of this, the spite of men sprinkles its salt and acid, as if the galley master put salt and vinegar on the sores of his slaves.”[4]
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Article written from the site Edifiant.fr.- ↑ Including the original language, Italian.
- ↑ April 2024.
- ↑ "Per obbedienza scrive la sua autobiografia, la prima opera valtortiana, e da qui inizia la sua attività di scrittrice, diventando per diversi anni la penna di Dio. (By obedience, she wrote her Autobiography, the first valtortian work, and from there began her writing activity, becoming the pen of God for several years)." - Santi e Beati, Maria Valtorta {it} - P. Massimo Cuofano, Servites of Mary (+28/04/2017).
- ↑ The Notebooks of 1944, September 24.