Kidron
A necessary passage between Jerusalem and the Garden of Olives, Bethany or Jericho, it is the name of a valley and the watercourse that runs through it.
Description
The Kidron is omnipresent in the work of Maria Valtorta. She describes it, at early spring, as:
“a small torrent carrying very little water that goes through the gap between two low hills. The Temple is at the top of one of the two; on the other, olive trees as far as the eye can see”[1]. In June it is only a “small stream” whose “scant waters flow in the center of its bed”[2]. Practically dry in July, “the Kidron, reduced to a trickle of water, makes no noise”[3]. But it swells again in October: “the noise of the torrent, swollen by the autumn rains”[4].
Key Events
Jesus passes through it very often, he goes up it with his apostles, from the Cenacle to Gethsemane, on the evening of Holy Thursday.
Its name
Kidron (Valley of); Kidron, Kedron, (watercourse, Darkness, sadness).
Where is it mentioned in the work?
EMV 54.6; EMV 67.1; EMV 644.1;
Learn more about this place
Excerpt from the Geographical Dictionary of the Gospel according to Maria Valtorta, by Jean-François Lavère:
An example taken among many others allows one to appreciate the extreme precision of Valtorta’s descriptions: “They return on the road to Bethany, which follows the course of the Kidron that makes an acute curve, after about a hundred steps from Siloam”[5]. This abrupt change of direction is located at the level of the King’s Gardens and En Rogel (see these terms).A torrent that flows from north to south, in the valley located between the mount of the Temple and the Mount of Olives. Its course extends to the Dead Sea. The descriptions by Maria Valtorta are consistent with the testimony of Chateaubriand, who specified that it is dry part of the year, and that in rainy springs, “it rolls reddish water”[6].
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• 31° 46’ 25’’ N / 35° 14’ 19’’ E /
• +670mm