Kidron

The Kidron and its valley.

A mandatory passage between Jerusalem and the Garden of Olives, Bethany or Jericho, it is the name of a valley and the course of water running through it.

Description

Kidron Valley, the Temple wall on the right, the Mount of Olives on the left.

The Kidron is omnipresent in the work of Maria Valtorta. She describes it, at the beginning of spring, as:

“a little torrent, with very little water, which flows away along the valley formed by two hills: on the top of one there is the Temple, on the other hill there are only olive-trees. Jesus is at the first slopes of the latter hill, which rises smoothly, completely covered with peaceful trees.”

In June it is just a “rivulet, with very little water lying in the centre of the riverbed”. Practically dry in July, “the Kidron, which has become a fine stream of water, makes no noise.” But it swells again in October: the rustling noise of the water of the torrent, swollen with the autumn rains.”

Significant events

Jesus passes there very often, he goes up it with his apostles, from the cenacle to Gethsemane, on the evening of Holy Thursday.

Its name

Kidron; Cedron, Kedron, (course of water, Darkness, sadness).

Where is it mentioned in the work?

GRM 54.6 ; GRM 67.1 ;

GRM 510.4 ; GRM 536.7

GRM 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 from many others allows us to appreciate the extreme precision of Valtortian descriptions: "They go back to the Bethany road, that follows the course of the Kidron and forms a hairpin bend after a few hundred steps from Siloam." This sudden change of direction is located at the level of the King’s Gardens and En Rogel (see these words).

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 continues to the Dead Sea. The descriptions of 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 red water”.

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• 31° 46’ 25’’ N / 35° 14’ 19’’ E /

• +670mm

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Place located in Jerusalem where Jesus celebrated Passover with his apostles and instituted the Eucharist on the eve of his death (from Latin cenaculum: dining room). This place became the first Church at the request of the Virgin Mary.