Herod the Great
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This character does not appear directly in the scenes of the Gospel seen by Maria Valtorta, but his memory constantly shines through, especially in the childhood gospel.
A paranoid ruler, fearing this "king" Jesus who has just been born and who is announced to him by the mages[1], he has all the children of Bethlehem and the surrounding area aged two years and under killed.[2] Two thousand children perished thus, victims bear witness with trauma[3], but the number is tempered by Jesus in a dictation.[4] Nevertheless, the crimes committed by this despot at the end of his life shocked even the court of Rome.[5]
Character and Appearance
Simplified genealogical tree of the Asmoneans and the Idumeans. Source: https://www.maria-valtorta.org/.
Caesar called him a "bloody pig"[6].
His Name
Name of Idumean origin (southern Judea).
Where is he mentioned in the work?
EMV 31 EMV 34 EMV 35 EMV 41 EMV 66 EMV 69 EMV 73 EMV 74 EMV 78 EMV 89 EMV 119 EMV 426 EMV 464
Notes and References
- ↑ EMV 464
- ↑ Mt 2,16-18
- ↑ EMV 73
- ↑ Regarding the number of holy Innocents who perished in Herod's massacre, Jesus says: "Between those from Bethlehem and those from the countryside, their number rises to three hundred and twenty. And I specify further that, among them, those from Bethlehem were one hundred and eighty-eight, while those from the countryside, struck in a wide radius by Herod's agents sent to exterminate the newborns, were one hundred and thirty-two. Among these killed, there were sixty-four little girls, whom the sicarii did not identify as such, because they killed in darkness, confusion, and frenzy to act quickly, before anything could intervene to stop the massacre." Maria Valtorta, The Notebooks from 1945 to 1950, dictation of February 28, 1947.
- ↑ EMV 426
- ↑ EMV 74