Maria Valtorta

Maria Valtorta ( born March 14, 1897 in Caserta, Italy, † 12 October 1961 Viareggio / Italy) was an Italian mystic. Their writings reflect, according to Valtortas visions in which her ​​had revealed Jesus Christ.

Life

Mary was the daughter of Lombard parents; her father was an officer in the Italian army, her mother a French teacher. She attended a private school after elementary school. 1917/18, she joined until the end of the war, the Samaritan sisters.

1920, shortly before her 23rd birthday, she was beaten in the street by a young person with an iron bar in the back. Since then, she was in pain and paralysis, probably caused by an injury to the spine by the impact. Maria was paralyzed from the waist down after 1934 and remained bedridden and in need of care until death.

On Good Friday 1943 Maria Valtorta heard according to its own statements, a voice, who introduced herself as the voice of Jesus and led her to write a text in their copybook. The discussions or visions became more frequent and lasted until about 1953. During this time, Maria Valtorta wrote down about 15,000 such sites.

Her confessor, a priest of the Servite, P. Romualdo Migliorini, stated after her death, she was, apparently, " obedience ", died on October 12, 1961 at the very moment when he had done the usual prayer for the dying: " Proficiscere, anima christiana, ex hoc mundo " ( " Pull away, Christian soul, from this world "). Since 1973, her grave is located in Florence, in a chapel in the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata.

Published works

The most famous is Maria Valtortas writing The God-man ( original title: L' è stato Rivelato Evangelo come mi - The Gospel as it was revealed to me '). There are again Maria Valtoras visions of the life of Jesus and his contemporaries. The described visions set a time with visions of the life of the grandparents of Jesus. The transcript reached the greatest extent in the visions of the three last years of Jesus and ends a few years after his ascension. The reproduction of the conversations of Jesus with other plays ( for example, his mother Mary, Mary Magdalene, the Greek Syntyche, Peter, John and the other apostles ) a major role. In addition often be described also the flora and fauna of the Holy Land. The events run approximately parallel to the time sequence in the Gospels; but their description occupies a larger scale.

The work has been translated into seven languages; Translations into other languages ​​have been started. There are also smaller works of the author: The book Azaria, lessons about the letter of Paul 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 - Life and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Parvis -Verlag, Hauteville 2000, ISBN 3907525019 ( 12 volumes )
  • Maria Valtorta: The booklets 1943 Parvis -Verlag, Hauteville 2006, ISBN 2-88022-807-7.
  • 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 era. Parvis -Verlag, Hauteville 1992, ISBN 3-907525-13-2
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