Maria Valtorta

Maria Valtorta (born March 14, 1897 in Caserta , Italy ; † October 12, 1961 in Viareggio / Italy) was an Italian mystic . According to Valtorta, her writings refer to visions in which Jesus Christ revealed himself to her .

Life

Maria was born to Lombard parents; her father was an officer in the Italian army, her mother a French teacher. After primary school, she attended a private high school. In 1917/18 she joined the Samaritan Sisters until the end of the war. In 1920, shortly before her 23rd birthday, Maria was hit in the back in the street by a youth with an iron rod. Since then, she has suffered from pain and paralysis, most likely from an injury to her spine from the blow. Maria was paralyzed from the waist down from 1934 and remained bedridden and in need of care until she died.

At the age of 21 in sister's costume, 1918

According to her information, on Good Friday 1943, Maria Valtorta heard a voice that introduced itself as the voice of Jesus and moved her to write down a text in her exercise book. The visions accumulated and lasted until around 1953. During this time Maria Valtorta wrote about 15,000 such pages.

Her confessor , a priest of the Order of the Servites , Fr. Romualdo Migliorini, stated after her death that she had died, apparently “out of obedience”, on October 12, 1961, just as he was saying the usual prayer for the dying: "Proficiscere, anima christiana, ex hoc mundo" ("sheath, Christian soul"). Her grave has been in Florence since 1973 , in a chapel in the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata .

Published works

The best known is Maria Valtorta's work Der Gottmensch (original title: L'Evangelo come mi è stato rivelato - 'The Gospel as it was revealed to me'). It reproduces Maria Valtora's visions of the life of Jesus and his contemporaries. The visions described start with visions about the life of Jesus' grandparents, Joachim and Anna . The writing reaches the greatest extent in the visions over the last three years of Jesus' life and ends a few years after his ascension into heaven. The reproduction of Jesus' conversations with others (for example his mother Mary, Mary Magdalene , the Greek Syntyche, Peter , John and the other apostles ) plays a major role. In addition, flora and fauna of the Holy Land are often depicted. The events run roughly parallel to the sequence of times in the Gospels; but their description takes on a larger scope.

The work has been translated into seven languages; Translations into other languages have started. There are also smaller works by the author: The book Azaria , lessons on Paul's letter to the Romans , Quaderni and Quadernetti .

literature

Maria Valtorta: L 'Evangelo come mi è stato rivelato . Centro Editoriale Valtortiano, Isola del Liri 2001, ISBN 8879871005 (10 volumes, Italian edition)
Maria Valtorta: The God Man - the life and suffering of our Lord Jesus Christ . Parvis-Verlag, Hauteville 2000, ISBN 3907525019 (12 volumes)
Maria Valtorta: The Notebooks 1943 . Parvis-Verlag, Hauteville 2006, ISBN 2-88022-807-7
Maria Valtorta: The Notebooks 1944 . Parvis-Verlag, Hauteville 2009, ISBN 9782880228101
Maria Valtorta: The books 1945-1950 . Parvis-Verlag, Hauteville 2011, ISBN 9782880228385
Maria Valtorta: Lessons on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans . Parvis-Verlag, Hauteville 1999, ISBN 3-907525-31-0
Maria Valtorta: autobiography . Parvis-Verlag, Hauteville 1997, ISBN 3-907525-30-2
Maria Valtorta: The dawn of a new time . Parvis-Verlag, Hauteville 1992, ISBN 3-907525-13-2
Maria Valtorta: Quadernetti - Scattered Notes . Parvis-Verlag, Hauteville 2015, ISBN 9782880228620
Jean-François Lavere: "The Valtorta Riddle". Parvis-Verlag, Hauteville 2015, ISBN 9782880228781

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Valtorta, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian writer and Catholic mystic
DATE OF BIRTH	March 14, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Caserta
DATE OF DEATH	October 12, 1961
Place of death	Viareggio