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L'évangile tel qu'il m'a été révélé #1
The Gospel As Revealed to Me - Volume 1
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500 pages, Paperback
About the author
Maria Valtorta
190 books40 followersMaria Valtorta was a Roman Catholic Italian writer and poet, considered by many to be a mystic. She was a Franciscan tertiary and a lay member of the Servants of Mary who reported reputed personal conversations with, and dictations from, Jesus Christ.
In her youth Valtorta travelled around Italy due to her father's military career. Her father eventually settled in Viareggio. In 1920, aged 23, while walking on a street with her mother, a delinquent youth struck her in the back with an iron bar for no apparent reason. In 1934 the injury eventually confined her to bed for the remaining 28 years of her life. Her spiritual life was influenced by reading the autobiography of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux and, in 1925, at the age of 28, before becoming bedridden, she offered herself to God as a victim soul.
On 23 April 1943, Good Friday, Valtorta reported the voice of Jesus suddenly speaking to her and asking her to write. From then until 1951 she produced over 15,000 handwritten pages in 122 notebooks, mostly detailing the life of Jesus as an extension of the gospels. Her handwritten notebooks containing close to 700 reputed episodes in the life of Jesus were typed on separate pages by her priest and reassembled, given that they had no temporal order, and became the basis of her 5,000-page controversial book The Poem of the Man God. The Holy See placed the work on the Index of Prohibited Books and the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano accompanied publication of this decree with an article that called the book a badly fictionalized life of Jesus.
Valtorta lived most of her life bedridden in Viareggio, Italy where she died in 1961. She is buried at the grand cloister of the Basilica of Santissima Annunziata in Florence.
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In her youth Valtorta travelled around Italy due to her father's military career. Her father eventually settled in Viareggio. In 1920, aged 23, while walking on a street with her mother, a delinquent youth struck her in the back with an iron bar for no apparent reason. In 1934 the injury eventually confined her to bed for the remaining 28 years of her life. Her spiritual life was influenced by reading the autobiography of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux and, in 1925, at the age of 28, before becoming bedridden, she offered herself to God as a victim soul.
On 23 April 1943, Good Friday, Valtorta reported the voice of Jesus suddenly speaking to her and asking her to write. From then until 1951 she produced over 15,000 handwritten pages in 122 notebooks, mostly detailing the life of Jesus as an extension of the gospels. Her handwritten notebooks containing close to 700 reputed episodes in the life of Jesus were typed on separate pages by her priest and reassembled, given that they had no temporal order, and became the basis of her 5,000-page controversial book The Poem of the Man God. The Holy See placed the work on the Index of Prohibited Books and the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano accompanied publication of this decree with an article that called the book a badly fictionalized life of Jesus.
Valtorta lived most of her life bedridden in Viareggio, Italy where she died in 1961. She is buried at the grand cloister of the Basilica of Santissima Annunziata in Florence.
(source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Va...)
Fondazione Maria Valtorta CEV
http://www.fondazionemariavaltortacev...
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April 9, 2018
SUMMARY:
"Part 1 of a long and epic novel narrating in detail the life and teachings of Jesus Christ according to 20th century Catholic visionary Maria Valtorta."
This book is powerful and impossible to describe, you have to experience it yourself to understand. It reads as novel not as catechism, the fact that I really appreciated. Recommended to all those who are curious and want to find out more about the life of Jesus – this book tells his story in very readable and engaging way.
Note: I read this in my mother tongue, hence the review of Slovak edition
"Part 1 of a long and epic novel narrating in detail the life and teachings of Jesus Christ according to 20th century Catholic visionary Maria Valtorta."
This book is powerful and impossible to describe, you have to experience it yourself to understand. It reads as novel not as catechism, the fact that I really appreciated. Recommended to all those who are curious and want to find out more about the life of Jesus – this book tells his story in very readable and engaging way.
Note: I read this in my mother tongue, hence the review of Slovak edition
December 18, 2016
I've read it for the third time and I must admit it is always as fascinating and emotional as the first time.
May 11, 2026
In my 22 years, I have never before read more beautiful book. In mass today, Father Tony in his homily asked us to think about someone who has shown us the love of Christ. Jessie did just that when she gathered Colleen and I together on the back porch of the Green House, and as the sun set off to the west, she read us the anointed passage of Mary’s betrothal to Joseph in the temple. What a heavenly evening that one was — the eastward breeze, the clothes gently swinging on their lines, the words of a mystic floating through the cooling air, my heart set aflame within me.
Ever since that night, this book has been my constant companion. I often bring it with me to my holy hour in the chapel, sitting in that chair by the open window with its curtains blowing in the breeze, the One who loves me gazing down on me from His monstrance.
Ever finding this book has been one of the great gifts and adventures of my life! So real, so intentional, so intricate, so beautiful, so wild, so human, so Godly is our Jesus, and so many of us never get to read about what he was truly like during his life. Oh, to be a mystic one day!!
Thank you Lord, for the gift of Maria Valarta and the most amazing, inspiring book I have ever read in my life. AND TO THINK THERE ARE 6 MORE VOLUMES!!! A prayer: God, would you send me the next one?
📖🕊️
One of these days, I’ll start to add in all of the beautiful quotes I’ve collected over my reading!
Ever since that night, this book has been my constant companion. I often bring it with me to my holy hour in the chapel, sitting in that chair by the open window with its curtains blowing in the breeze, the One who loves me gazing down on me from His monstrance.
Ever finding this book has been one of the great gifts and adventures of my life! So real, so intentional, so intricate, so beautiful, so wild, so human, so Godly is our Jesus, and so many of us never get to read about what he was truly like during his life. Oh, to be a mystic one day!!
Thank you Lord, for the gift of Maria Valarta and the most amazing, inspiring book I have ever read in my life. AND TO THINK THERE ARE 6 MORE VOLUMES!!! A prayer: God, would you send me the next one?
📖🕊️
One of these days, I’ll start to add in all of the beautiful quotes I’ve collected over my reading!
April 20, 2025
Vote: 4,25
Class: L-A3 (FP)
(rivelazioni private a una mistica italiana del 1900)
L'opera (in dieci volumi) della Valtorta è abbasstanza controversa, e sopratutto al momento della sua prima edizione con il titolo "il poema dell'umo-Dio" era visto con un certo sospetto da parte del Magistero della Chiesa.
Negli anni, gli scritti della mistica hanno trovato molto apprezzamento da parte di molti fedeli cristiani, la cui vita d'orazione si è potuta nutrire dei dettagli sulla vita di Gesù e dei suoi apostoli che la mistica ha riportato nei suoi quaderni.
Il probelma dell'autenticità della rivelazione è per me irrilevante, di fronte al bene che può fare questo romanzo della vita di Cristo, in cui partiamo dalla nascita della Vergine Maria e seguiamo l'avventura dell'Uomo-Dio su questa terra.
Una sorta di "The Chosen" ante-litteram se vogliamo, e come essa molto piacevole e d'aiuto.
Sicuramente non è un'opera necessaria alla Fede cristiana - poche lo sono oltre al Nuovo e al Vecchio testamento - ma sicuramente mi sta piacendo molto e continuerò a leggerla fino alla fine.
Class: L-A3 (FP)
(rivelazioni private a una mistica italiana del 1900)
L'opera (in dieci volumi) della Valtorta è abbasstanza controversa, e sopratutto al momento della sua prima edizione con il titolo "il poema dell'umo-Dio" era visto con un certo sospetto da parte del Magistero della Chiesa.
Negli anni, gli scritti della mistica hanno trovato molto apprezzamento da parte di molti fedeli cristiani, la cui vita d'orazione si è potuta nutrire dei dettagli sulla vita di Gesù e dei suoi apostoli che la mistica ha riportato nei suoi quaderni.
Il probelma dell'autenticità della rivelazione è per me irrilevante, di fronte al bene che può fare questo romanzo della vita di Cristo, in cui partiamo dalla nascita della Vergine Maria e seguiamo l'avventura dell'Uomo-Dio su questa terra.
Una sorta di "The Chosen" ante-litteram se vogliamo, e come essa molto piacevole e d'aiuto.
Sicuramente non è un'opera necessaria alla Fede cristiana - poche lo sono oltre al Nuovo e al Vecchio testamento - ma sicuramente mi sta piacendo molto e continuerò a leggerla fino alla fine.
June 7, 2025
So much to absorb in Vol. 1. I could see myself rereading it.
June 6, 2022
Attraverso le descrizioni di Maria Valtorta si ha la suggestiva sensazione di poter osservare dal vivo le scene e gli episodi che vengono raccontati. Anche quelli che già si conoscono in virtù dei quattro Vangeli canonici, si riempiono di ulteriori dettagli e sfumature che non sembrano affatto in contrasto con la tradizione e il magistero della Chiesa ma permettono di comprendere più a fondo. Questo primo volume, in modo particolare, ci permette di conoscere da vicino quei Santi che hanno fatto parte del progetto di Redenzione e dei quali conosciamo bene poco: i Santi Gioacchino e Anna, in primis, San Giuseppe, San Giovanni Battista e gli apostoli. Non in ultimo iniziamo subito a conoscere la figura molto controversa di Giuda Iscariota. La lettura è ulteriormente edificante per gli ulteriori commenti di Gesù in persona o della Vergine che possono divenire oggetto di meditazione e di esame di coscienza personale. Intendo naturalmente continuare la serie per conoscere l'intera opera.
May 14, 2015
Pieno di sapienza!
December 10, 2023
Algo más sencillo de leer que las visiones de Ana Catalina Emmerick, se nota que es un lenguaje más moderno.
Muy interesante también sobre todo este primer tomo como documentación para mi libro.
Muy interesante también sobre todo este primer tomo como documentación para mi libro.
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