Maria Valtorta Quick Biography
Maria Valtorta Quick Biography
by Poem on Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:44 pm
Maria Valtorta was born in 1897 in Caserta, Italy. In 1916 the Lord attracted her to Himself by means of a dream which was to remain vivid throughout her life. In an evangelical vision, which seemed to anticipate the waking visions of her literary work, Jesus aided Maria with words of admonishment and piety.
In her early 20's and in the spring of 1920, while walking along the street, she was struck in the back by a young delinquent. With an iron bar stripped from a bed, he came from behind and struck her with all his might. She remained confined to bed for three months, just a sample of what was to be her future complete infirmity. January 4th, 1933 was the last day Maria was able to leave her house and after April 1, 1934, she was no longer able to leave her bed.
Her activity as writer reached intensity from 1943 to 1947, and continued, diminishing progressively, until 1953. The notebooks written by Maria included almost fifteen thousand handwritten pages. A little less than one-third of this outstanding literary production concerns her monumental masterpiece on the Life of Jesus: THE POEM OF THE MAN-GOD. The minor works include extensive commentaries on biblical texts, doctrinal lessons, histories of the first Christians and martyrs and pious compositions. "I can affirm" - one of Maria's declarations reads - "that I have had no human source to be able to know what I write, and what, even while writing, I often do not understand."
Maria died in 1961 at the age of 65. With ecclesiastical permission, her mortal remains are now venerated in the Capitular Chapel in the Grand Cloister of the Basilica of the Most Holy Annunciation, in Florence, Italy. Chiseled on her tomb are the words: "DIVINARUM RERUM SCRIPTRIX" (Writer of Divine Things). Maria's home in Viareggio, has been beautifully restored so that pilgrims may visit the place where she lived & wrote. Viareggio ("way of the kings") is on the northwest coast of Italy, north of Pisa.
In her early 20's and in the spring of 1920, while walking along the street, she was struck in the back by a young delinquent. With an iron bar stripped from a bed, he came from behind and struck her with all his might. She remained confined to bed for three months, just a sample of what was to be her future complete infirmity. January 4th, 1933 was the last day Maria was able to leave her house and after April 1, 1934, she was no longer able to leave her bed.
Her activity as writer reached intensity from 1943 to 1947, and continued, diminishing progressively, until 1953. The notebooks written by Maria included almost fifteen thousand handwritten pages. A little less than one-third of this outstanding literary production concerns her monumental masterpiece on the Life of Jesus: THE POEM OF THE MAN-GOD. The minor works include extensive commentaries on biblical texts, doctrinal lessons, histories of the first Christians and martyrs and pious compositions. "I can affirm" - one of Maria's declarations reads - "that I have had no human source to be able to know what I write, and what, even while writing, I often do not understand."
Maria died in 1961 at the age of 65. With ecclesiastical permission, her mortal remains are now venerated in the Capitular Chapel in the Grand Cloister of the Basilica of the Most Holy Annunciation, in Florence, Italy. Chiseled on her tomb are the words: "DIVINARUM RERUM SCRIPTRIX" (Writer of Divine Things). Maria's home in Viareggio, has been beautifully restored so that pilgrims may visit the place where she lived & wrote. Viareggio ("way of the kings") is on the northwest coast of Italy, north of Pisa.
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