Father Sostegno M. Benedetti
Father Sostegno M. Benedetti (1880-1958) was prior of the convent of the Servites of Mary in Pisa, not far from Viareggio. He believed in the supernatural origin of the life of Jesus (published under the title The Gospel as Revealed to Me). He put his moral endorsement by countersigning the attestation of April 28, 1947 (EMV 652) by which Maria Valtorta closed the visions received and which, - according to what she wrote to Mother Teresa Maria di Sans Giuseppe, her spiritual mother, - guaranteed "that the Work will remain in the form dictated and enlightened by God, without any of the human retouches that a writer generally uses to perfect his own writings before having them printed."[1]
It was Maria Valtorta who put Father Sotegno in contact with Therese Neumann (Teresa Neumann), the stigmatized of Konnersreuth in Bavaria[2]. Proof that they knew each other without knowing more. The two mystics had in common the vision of the life of Christ (partial for Therese Neumann who did not record it), being stigmatized (Invisible Stigmata for Maria Valtorta). Therese Neumann was born and died a year apart from Maria Valtorta (1898-1962).
Notes and references[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Letters to Mother Teresa Maria, Volume 2, April 28, 1947.
- ↑ Maria Valtorta a Mystic of the Family of the Servants of Mary, Father Giuseppe M. Galassi.