Mgr Maurizio Raffa and Maria Valtorta

Portrait of Monsignor Maurizio Raffa (1906-1957), founder of the Centro internazionale di comparazione e sintesi (Rome), recognized Righteous Among the Nations, reconstructed by AI.

Born in 1906 and died in 1957, he was Director of the Centro internazionale di comparazione e sintesi.

In 1948, he was appointed by Pius XII member of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. At that time, he was chargé d’affaires of the Sacred Congregation of the Council, later becoming the Congregation for the Clergy. On January 25, 1952, when he added his attestation to other "illustrious figures" supporting Maria Valtorta, he was Director of the Roman Center for Comparison and Synthesis, a scientific research organization he had founded in 1940, as well as the journal Responsabilità del Sapere in 1947. He attests that:

to write even a single part of the work (by Maria Valtorta), one would have to be an Author (who does not exist today) who is at the same time a great poet, a talented biblical scholar, a confirmed theologian, an expert in archaeology and topography, and a profound connoisseur of human psychology.

On June 22, 2009, he was recognized among the Righteous Among the Nations. The ceremony took place in November at San Giovanni Battista dei Genovesi in Rome which he frequented.