Mystical Calendar of Maria Valtorta

The mystical calendar of Maria Valtorta reports the major stages of her spiritual progression. It was established on February 10, 1946, at the request of Jesus who wanted to highlight the efforts and the will that Maria Valtorta showed to become the "pen of God." Jesus did this one week later, on February 17.

Three parts of this mystical calendar should be considered:

1. The events reported from March 14, 1897, to March 2, 1943. They are recounted in the Autobiography of Maria Valtorta.
2. Those reported from April 23, 1943, "to this day," i.e., February 1946.
3. A third part, which is not reported here but in later writings, will lead Maria Valtorta to total surrender.

The Mystical Calendar

"Our Lord urges me to write down my act of offering, the hymn to the crucified Jesus, and other spiritual things that have prepared my current state. I obey by preceding it with these few brief notes.

Part reported in the Autobiography

• March 14, 1897: Birth on Via G. B. Vico, Caserta.
• March 24 (1897): Baptism at the Church of S. Elena.
• October 2, 1901: At the Ursulines in Milan, via Lanzone, and my first encounter with Jesus living His Passion.
• March 18, 1904: First confession at the Ursulines.
• May 30, 1905: Confirmation at the Marcelline Sisters, via Quadronno, Milan.
• October 5, 1908: First Communion at Casteggio at the Sisters of Nevers, and consecration to the Immaculate Virgin.
• March 4, 1909: I am placed at the Bianconi College with the Sisters of the Charity of Saint Mary-Child and of Capitanio.
• June 1, 1910: Daughter of Mary.
• November 11, 1912: Memorable exercises... I propose: "Sacrifice and duty in all things and at all times," and the vocation of suffering for love comes to me.
• June 11, 1916: Warning dream: "It is not enough not to do evil, you must also not desire to do it," Jesus tells me. This halts the anguish caused by many moral sufferings.
• February 11, 1922: Saint Francis of Assisi speaks to my heart...
• January 1, 1923: "I thirst! Grant me to save souls for You and give them to You, and take all the rest..."
• January 1, 1924: Renunciation of the world and affections for my own spiritual salvation and that of many. Vow of chastity.
• January 28, 1925: Saint Therese of the Child Jesus...
• Trinity Sunday 1925: Act of offering to Merciful Love.
• May 4, 1928: Slavery in Mary according to the Blessed Grignon de Montfort.
• May 21, 1929: At Castelverde di Cremona. The first touch of death and suffering. Long live love!
• June 25, 1929: Second jubilee. Vow of chastity, poverty, and obedience.
• November 6, 1929: Postulant in the Franciscan third order.
• December 29, 1929: Catholic Women's Action.
• Good Friday 1930: The agony in the church for three hours. The first angina attack.
• June 29, 1930: "Here is the bride of Christ! Come..."; love accelerates cardiac lesions and consumes me.
• November 23, 1930: Taking habit in the Franciscan third order and renewal of my vows and offerings.
• July 1, 1931: Act of offering as a victim to Divine Justice and Love. My act of offering.
• January 4, 1932: The guardian angel and the fainting...
• December 18, 1932: Beginning of seclusion due to the worsening of my illness.
• April 7, 1933: Passion Friday. To hasten my immolation, I repeat my act of offering under the Protection of Our Lady of Sorrows.
• Good Friday 1934: While I adore crucified Jesus, burning with compassionate love and desire for immolation, I sing my psalm of praise for suffering and love (see below).
• April 1, 1934: Easter of the Resurrection. Jesus is risen. I am bedridden... My heart gave out after beating intensely on Friday.
• April 18, 1934: So that the devouring fire does not stop growing; I renew my act of offering, uniting to the Protection of Mary that of Saint Joseph, whose feast is today.
• April 21, 1934: Let us sanctify our suffering and use it! I become the zealous defender of suffering.
• June 30, 1935: Death of my father... and Jesus asks me to sacrifice not assisting him, nor giving him my prayers, nor seeing him... though I live in the same house...
• October 5, 1938: Sister of the Congregation of Mary-Child, under whose Protection I renew all my offerings.
• February 9, 1939: "Lord, so that this father does not lose faith in You and hope, save his little daughter and give me her illness"; I catch pleurisy while Anna-Maria miraculously heals, though she was already dying and was expected to die any moment. She had suffered from pulmonary gangrene for three months after having pneumonia and lung abscesses. She was fifteen months old...
• April 1, 1940: Beginning of my correspondence with Giuseppe on his theories, etc.
• June 4, 1941: I see the mysterious door open and an incandescent light come out; inside, a Voice advises me not to despise Giuseppe Belfanti, but rather to show deep charity towards him, because he may have found mercy from the Heart of God for seeking the truth, even by erroneous paths.
• March 2, 1943: The Voice, which identifies itself as Jesus — after addressing me as unknown when I was awake or in a dream form — tells me, joining the words with the touch of hands that draw me toward His chest: "But I remain with you..."

Part reported in writings from 1943 to 1946

• April 23, 1943: Good Friday. The first dictation.
• October 4, 1943: Death of Mother... As with my father, I am refused permission to assist her, to offer my prayers, and to see her... though we were a few meters apart.
• December 1943: The visions.
• March 25–31, 1944: Taking habit and profession in the third order of the Servants of Mary.
• April 10 – May 9, 1944: The hour of Gethsemane! The hour between sext and none. The atrocious suffering that heaven does not console me for. The hour of hell...
• May 9, 1944: The Word returns. My suffering is terrible, but I am helped by Jesus, my Simon of Cyrene.
• July 4, 1944: The Temptation. Satan tries to take advantage of the offense suffered from those to whom I had done good to strongly tempt me against them to curse. Hard combat, won by love of God.
• July 15, 1944: Effusion of Peace to console me from the cruelty of men and the tempting violences of Satan.
• August 11, 1944: The promise "In a few days, you will be freed," says the Voice against the words of men without faith. Indeed, we are freed on September 3, and I have the opportunity to better know human frailties, and to attach myself to God to be able to forgive... forgive... forgive to gain a soul for God.
• October 16–17, 1944: Giuseppe converts from heresy and frees himself from spiritism after four years and six months of struggle (see below).
• November 10, 1944: Absolute abandonment in this exile! God alone. And to forgive... forgive to complete conversion...
• December 24, 1944: I return home. I dedicate the house to the Virgin of Fatima, as well as to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Saint Joseph.
• October 5, 1945: Extreme unction. I offer the penance of death for the spiritual life of Giuseppe, whose soul has hardly progressed in recent months, and who has behaved badly as a parent. But I have always forgiven to reach my goal, I have always offered the sufferings due to his conduct for that same goal...
• November 21, 1945: First confession and first communion of Giuseppe at age sixty-five. Thank you, Lord!

I could also enter the dates — mystical as well — of the scourging (between November 10 and 20, 1944), of the chalice of Divine Blood (around Easter 1945), and of the chalice of Gethsemane (October or November 1945), but I neither have the desire nor the strength to search for the exact dates.

Here is my mystical calendar to this day."

Further discovery

• The Spiritual Life of Maria Valtorta
• Her spiritual masters
• Act of Offering to Merciful Love and Divine Justice.
• Hymn to love and suffering
• Her Invisible Stigmata
• Tertiary of the Servites of Mary
• Her Rosaries
• The Virgin of Fatima in the life of Maria Valtorta