Mgr Luigi Traglia and Maria Valtorta
Mgr Luigi Traglia (1895-1977), future cardinal, is mentioned twice in the correspondence of Maria Valtorta and appears two other times in the Maria Valtorta file.
A brilliant and discreet administrative career
Raised to the rank of Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on February 22, 1932, he was appointed auditor of the Roman Rota on September 17, 1936. Three months later, he was named auxiliary vicar general of the Diocese of Rome (vice-gerent), and received episcopal consecration at the age of 41 with the titular seat of archbishop of Caesarea in Palestine on January 6, 1937, by Cardinal Francesco Marchetti Saltvaggiani, vicar general of Rome, in the Lateran Basilica.
He sat among the consultors of the Holy Office.
He was appointed cardinal by Pope John XXIII on March 28, 1960. At that time, he held the office of Chancellor of the Holy Church (Apostolic Chancery).
He was one of the highest dignitaries of the Roman Curia. His functions were both administrative and juridical. A principal collaborator of the pope, he was responsible for drafting, preserving, and authenticating the official acts of the Roman Curia. He supervised the Apostolic Chancery, a central dicastery that managed the administrative and legal affairs of the universal Church. His duties also included managing the archives and validating ecclesiastical appointments. Paul VI abolished the Apostolic Chancery in 1973, transferring its remaining functions to other dicasteries, notably the Secretariat of State. Cardinal Luigi Traglia was the last holder of this position.
His career, brilliant, was essentially administrative and managerial. He played the role of a discreet but indispensable pillar of the institutions he served with diplomacy and consistency.
In Maria Valtorta
July 25, 1946:
Roschini is the general theologian of the order, moreover an eminent writer, author of a Life of the Virgin printed in 1945. He is also a qualifier at the Holy Office, intimate of Mgr Traglia, vice-gerent of Rome, who approves everything Roschini presents to him on his own authority. This Father, whom Father Migliorini had naturally fled like the plague, has now taken upon himself the task of pushing things forward to the end, because he has read the entire Pre-Gospel (Birth and life of the Virgin up to her Weddings, birth of Jesus, life of the Holy Family up to the death of Saint Joseph, and departure for public life), and he is enthusiastic."[1]
February 14, 1949
Mgr Luigi Traglia appears in the list of consultors present at the [[Holy Office, Summary of Decisions, (17/02/1949)#February 14, 1949: the consultors[1]|meeting]] during which measures were taken against the Servites of Mary attempting to publish the work.
June 4, 1950
"They even go so far as to prevent many Souls from finding God and growing in the divine life through their filthy feelings of envy and ... profit. 'If you give me 200,000 lire, I approve,' said Mgr Traglia in 1946. 'I approve if you give me 250,000 lire,' said in 1948 Mgr De Romanis, now deceased."[2]
January 13, 1951
Mgr Luigi Traglia is mentioned in the Osservatore Romano regarding the sudden death of Cardinal Francesco Marchetti Saltvaggiani. He lived in the same apartment as him at the Palace of the Holy Office. He was absent at the time of the accident, having gone to say Mass.