New site in remembrance of Author Brendan Whiting DatingTheShroud.com

Shroud researcher and author Brendan Whiting held Maria Valtorta in high esteem, including many references to her writings in his groundbreaking 2006 book "The Shroud Story".  Brendan lost his long fight with Leukemia on January of 2009. Whiting's book introduced the world to the most powerful evidence that the 1988 Shroud c-14 data (dating the Shroud in the 14th Century) was invalid.  At first, his book turned the Shroud community upside-down, now his contention has gained world-wide acceptance.

Notre Dame President Rev. John Jenkins is still vigorously prosecuting the peaceful Pro-Life demonstrators to the fullest extent of the law.  These peaceful protestors had to pay exorbitant fines and fly back to Indiana several times for proceedings.  As of 7/27/2010, we have one MariaValtortaWebring friend who is still battling charges for peaceful Pro-Life demonstrating on campus.

Click on image for pictures from the May 17, 2009 Protest at Notre Dame.

     Maria Valtorta is considered to be one of the most edifying visionaries of our time, in that she recorded the most comprehensive and detailed Private Revelation of the Gospels ever; "The Gospel as it Was Revealed to Me" in Italy, and later published in English as the "Poem of the Man-God" after her death. She was born in Caserta, Italy in 1897, passed away in Viareggio in 1961 and is buried under the altar of the Capitular Chapel of the Servants of Mary at The Basilica of the Annunciation in Florence. Her dictations and visions took place during the times of WWII and give a wonderfully detailed account of the lives of Jesus and Mary. Maria Valtorta’s visions are the only Private Revelations to attain a Papal Order to Publish. Her writings were presented to Pope Pius XII in 1947, who examined them for ten months. His Holiness agreed to a special meeting in 1948, in which He ordered the publishing before three Priests: Fr. Corrado Berti (Professor of Dogmatic and Sacramental Theology at the Pontifical "Marianum" Theological Faculty of Rome from 1939 onward, later becoming Secretary of the Faculty from 1950 to 1959, as well as consultant to the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council), Fr. Romualdo M. Migliorini (Prefect Apostle in Africa), and Fr. Andrew M. Cecchin (Prior of the International College of the Servites of Mary in Rome).  These aforementioned Priests documented this event immediately afterwards with signed testimony.  The fact that the Pope did grant this audience was historically documented the next day, February 27, 1948 in L’Osservatore Romano Citta Del Vaticano, no. 48, p.1.  Since Maria Valtorta's writings encountered several obstacles when the Head of the Holy Office took offense at being circumnavigated in the Church approval process, Edouard Cardinal Gagnon (who served as Peritus during the second Vatican Council, that is the Expert Theologian Advisor and Consultant. He had a Doctorate in Theology and taught Canon law for ten years at the Grand Seminary), wrote from the Vatican that Pope Pius XII's action was: "The kind of official Imprimatur granted before witnesses by the Holy Father in 1948. An "Official Imprimatur" of the Supreme Authority of the Church".  The Code of Canon Law - Book II, Part II, Section I, Chapter I, Article I - gives the Pope full and supreme power over all levels of the Church and free use to exercise this power. The Papal order came first. Canon law prohibits this Papal order from being reversed by subordinate levels of Church authority. Canon law clearly requires that this Papal order be embraced with unconditional acceptance and submission.

     First Vatican Council, Session IV, Chp. IV, p.IX:  "So, then, if anyone says that the Roman Pontiff has merely an office of supervision and guidance, and not the full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the whole Church, and this not only in matters of faith and morals, but also in those which concern the discipline and government of the Church dispersed throughout the whole world; or that he has only the principal part, but not the absolute fullness, of this supreme power; or that this power of his is not ordinary and immediate both over all and each of the Churches and over all and each of the pastors and faithful: let him be anathema." - Catechism of the Catholic Church, 883 - "The college or body of bishops has no authority unless united with the Roman Pontiff, Peter's successor, as its head."

     Maria Valtorta's writings received and Imrimaturs from Bishop Roman Danylak (Titular Bishop of Nysea, Rome), Bishop Bonicilli (Abano, Italy) and Archbishop Soosa Pakian of Trimandrum.  In addition a Nihil Obstat was given by  Msgr. Luigi Lovazzano (Vicar-General).  If the Vatican thought these Imprimaturs were in error, it would have requested them to be removed. Nonetheless, the Vatican has let these Imprimaturs stand).

     Renowned Mariologist Father Gabriel Roschini, OSM was an outstanding advocate of Maria Valtorta's writings.  Pope John Paul II often referred to Father Gabriel M. Roschini as one of the greatest Marioligists who ever lived.  He was a decorated professor at the "Marianum" Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Rome, and an advisor to the Holy Office. He wrote over 130 Books on the Blessed Mother, all of which are in the Vatican Library. In his last book (which Father Gabriel said was his greatest, "The Virgin Mary In The Writings of Maria Valtorta"), the first two pages contain a letter of endorsement by Pope Paul VI.  Page one displays a photocopy of the original letter in Italian complete with Vatican insignia, and page two contains the English translation.  When Pope Paul VI was Archbishop of Milan, after evaluating Maria Valtorta's writings, He ordered her entire works to be sent to the Milan Seminary library.

     Blessed Gabriel Allegra, OFM was the only Scripture scholar beatified by Pope John Paul II, which took place on April 23, 2002. A St Jerome of our time, he was the first to translate the entire Bible into Chinese. He was also a prominent advocate and defender of Maria Valtorta's writings.  Being that the Holy Pontiff was well aware of Father Gabriel Allegra's resolute dedication to publishing articles advocating the Poem, many argue that this beatification was an indirect Papal endorsement of Maria Valtorta's writings by Pope John Paul II.

     Father Padre Pio was also an advocate of Maria Valtorta’s writings. One year before Padre Pio’s death, a woman named Mrs. Elisa Lucchi asked him if he advised reading Maria Valtorta’s writings. He replied, "I don’t just advise you, I insist that you read them!".  Fr. Leo, a personal chaplain of Mother Theresa of Calcutta for 3 years, noticed that she always carried 3 books with her, wherever she went. One was the Bible and the other was her breviary. He asked about the third, and it was by Maria Valtorta.  He asked her what it was about, and she told him "Read it".  He asked her again, and she responded with the same answer, "Read it".  Additionally, in 1996, Mother Theresa made a personal request of artist Susan Conroy to render a depiction of Our Blessed Mother as She appeared in a description by Maria Valtorta.

     The Centro Editorial Valtortiano (CEV), or Valtorta Publishing Center, was established in 1985 by Dr. Emilio Pisani, the son of Michele Pisani (1896-1963), who was the first publisher of Maria Valtorta's writings.

Valtorta.com

Valtorta.org

    Valtorta Publishing is one of the best ordering sites for books exclusively by and about Maria Valtorta.  This is also a very comprehensive and informative site.

		20% of The Poem of The Man-God text is provided free online, (over 800 pages).
		Free audio online for the current month of the Sunday Gospels with Maria Valtorta's writings, (5 Sundays or Feasts).
		The "Poem" is sold for 20% below regular retail price. Free shipping with check or money order. They have the reduced price with free shipping option so people will have no excuse to be without these precious writings.
		They also have a link to the signed six page testimony of Fr. Berti, who wrote about the private audience of Feb. 26, 1948, when Pius XII ordered the "Poem" to be published.

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     Astronomical details in Maria Valtorta's writings have been proven strikingly accurate.  Theoretical Physicist Professor Lonnie Lee Van Zandt upon reading the Poem observed that in March of year 0033 Valtorta recorded in one of her visions seeing Jupiter, Mars, Venus and "stars of Orion: of Rigil and Betelgeuse, of Aldebaran, of Perseus, Andromeda and Cassiopeia and the Pleiades" along with a waning moon in the night sky.  Using a complex Astronomical computer program, Professor Van Zandt conducted a stellar excursion into the distant past and discovered that this was only possible for two days in March of 0033.  This astronomical scenario doesn't occur for many decades before and after those two days in March, 0033.  Moreover, he uncovered several other similar astronomical conformations.  It would have been impossible for anyone in the 1940's to determine these astronomical alignments.  These impossibly exact details "tax the credulity of even the immovable atheist more than the alternative that Jesus showed it to her.  In the words of Sherlock Holmes, when you eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however merely improbable, must be true."

Cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~zak/Van_Zandt.pdf

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Authentic Proof

Testimonies

Voiding The Voices of Heaven

     Researcher David J. Webster observed that Maria Valtorta named nine towns and villages that were not discovered until after her death. He authored a landmark 31 page article that fundamentally proves the authenticity of Maria Valtorta's writings. The "Poem of the Man-God" may be the very first Private Revelation ever to be scientifically proven genuine. David meticulously and methodically examines Maria Valtorta’s strikingly accurate descriptions of first Century Palestine for every piece of topographical evidence. He then compares this evidence with currently known facts that are only now being proven authentic.  He has a charisma reminiscent of John the Baptist.

     "Over thirty percent or 79 of the 255 geographical sites in Palestine mentioned in the Poem were not listed in the 1939 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE) Atlas. 62 of these 79 were not even listed in the 184 page Macmillan Bible Atlas (MBA) published in 1968. Where did Maria Valtorta get all these names? For a first century eye-witness to include so many obscure and unknown names would, of course, be expected. And most surprising is that these names, obscure and unknown in the 1940’s, are being proven authentic. 52 of these 62 have no biblical reference whatever and 17 of these with no biblical reference have been either indirectly confirmed as authentic by recent "ancient external sources" found in the Macmillan Bible Atlas (1968) or actually listed in the HarperCollins Atlas of the Bible (1989). This makes a total of 29 confirmations since the 1939 ISBE atlas listing. Also among those 62 sites are mentioned the ruins of 6 ancient Palestinian cities some corresponding to the modern consensus on location. In addition, Valtorta’s precise descriptions of the natural topography of Palestine from numerous locations and the information about the outside pagan world of that day, including people, places, customs, Greek and Roman mythology, related in the conversations of that day, are strikingly correct."

Yale University Published an Article on the Medjugorje Connection to Maria Valtorta

Pantheon.Yale.edu/~rpl24/Glossolalia/Klimek.pdf

Ministry Values interview with Yale University Graduate and author Daniel Pewel Klimek (who also studied at Harvard University achieving the prestigious the Harvard Crimson Certificate of Excellence).

MinistryValues.com/index.php

In Defense Of The Poem

by

The Most Rev. Roman Danylak

Titular Bishop of Nyssa   Rome, Italy

Visions and Dictations of Jesus to Archbishop Don Ottavio Michelini

  "I have dictated to Maria Valtorta, a victim soul, a marvelous work. Of this work I am the Author. You yourself, Son, have taken account of the raging reactions of Satan.... You have verified the resistance that many priests oppose to this work. This also proves, Son, that he who has not sensed in the Poem the savor of the Divine, the perfume of the Supernatural, has a soul encumbered and darkened."

Propheties.it/DonMichelini.htm

Wikipedia.org/Monsignor_Don_Ottavio_Michelini

Nangini.com

A  brief biography of Maria Valtorta and her writings:

http://www.freewebs.com/mariavaltorta/index.htm

http://www.freewebs.com/valtorta/index.htm

A wonderful testimony to the Poem

by Sister Christine Kabumbu

The Greatest Gift

SistersOfTheChildJesusKasama.com

Find a Penpal, children of Kasam Zambia

HopeWave.org

MarysRemnant.org/Christmas/poeminfo.html

The Gospels As Revealed to Me

Forum

     PoemManGod.Forumotion.com is a forum dedicated to discussion of Maria Valtorta’s writings.

Medjugorjeweible.com

"The greatest books outside of Holy Scripture I have ever read!" -Wayne Weible

Regrettably, a few Medjugorje websites consider the confirmations of Maria Valtorta's Writings by Our Holy Mother at Medjugorje a liability to future Catholic Church approval of the Apparitions.  Many have even reverted to modifying Mary's phraseology to conform with human critical philosophical viewpoints.  Fortunately, there are a few websites dedicated to Medjugorje that have remained loyal to Mary's Divine Wisdom; Mej.com, Medjugorje.eu, Medjugorje.org and MedjugorjeWeible.com.  When the Ten Secrets begin to unfold and final Miracles take place, people will be aware of the Valtorta confirmations through these sites that persevered in loyalty to Our Holy Mother's Heavenly knowledge.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Revelations_of_Saint_Birgitta

     Brother Chicie converted the five books of Maria Valtorta's "Poem of the Man-God" into a Text-To-Speech (TTS) format utilizing computer generated voices designed for the blind and visually impaired.

Chicie55.tripod.com

Brother Chicie also hosts website for learning the Italian language through song.

Chicie55.com/LearningItalian

     There is a similar TTS project that was started on the Advanced Christianity site:

AdvancedChristianity.com/Pages/TTS/TTS_000.htm

Mej.com is a new Medjugorje site that posts a Marian Rosary based on Maria Valtorta's writings.

Regrettably, a few Medjugorje websites consider the confirmations of Maria Valtorta's Writings by Our Holy Mother at Medjugorje a liability to future Catholic Church approval of the Apparitions.  Many have even reverted to modifying Mary's phraseology to conform with human critical philosophical viewpoints.  Fortunately, there are a few websites dedicated to Medjugorje that have remained loyal to Mary's Divine Wisdom; Mej.com, Medjugorje.eu, Medjugorje.org and MedjugorjeWeible.com.  When the Ten Secrets begin to unfold and final Miracles take place, people will be aware of the Valtorta confirmations through these sites that persevered in loyalty to Our Holy Mother's Heavenly knowledge.

Medjugorje.eu is another website that recognizes Our Holy Mother's Confirmations of Maria Valtorta's writings

Regrettably, a few Medjugorje websites consider the confirmations of Maria Valtorta's Writings by Our Holy Mother at Medjugorje a liability to future Catholic Church approval of the Apparitions.  Many have even reverted to modifying Mary's phraseology to conform with human critical philosophical viewpoints.  Fortunately, there are a few websites dedicated to Medjugorje that have remained loyal to Mary's Divine Wisdom; Mej.com, Medjugorje.eu, Medjugorje.org and MedjugorjeWeible.com.  When the Ten Secrets begin to unfold and final Miracles take place, people will be aware of the Valtorta confirmations through these sites that persevered in loyalty to Our Holy Mother's Heavenly knowledge.

Medjugorje.org is another website that recognizes Our Holy Mother's Confirmations of Maria Valtorta's writings

Regrettably, a few Medjugorje websites consider the confirmations of Maria Valtorta's Writings by Our Holy Mother at Medjugorje a liability to future Catholic Church approval of the Apparitions.  Many have even reverted to modifying Mary's phraseology to conform with human critical philosophical viewpoints.  Fortunately, there are a few websites dedicated to Medjugorje that have remained loyal to Mary's Divine Wisdom; Mej.com, Medjugorje.eu, Medjugorje.org and MedjugorjeWeible.com.  When the Ten Secrets begin to unfold and final Miracles take place, people will be aware of the Valtorta confirmations through these sites that persevered in loyalty to Our Holy Mother's Heavenly knowledge.

A  thoughtful site established by Crystleagle commemorating the Visions of Maria Valtorta Concerning the Life, Ministry and Teachings of Jesus

Hubpages.com/hub/The-Visions-of-Maria-Valtorta-Concerning-the-Life-Ministry-and-Teachings-of-Jesus

On Sunday October 25th, 2009, Saint Catherine of Sienna Parish on Long Island NY was visited by Father Patrick A. Martin.  Those who were moved by his wonderful World Mission Sunday Mass can find more audio on his site: AWildCanary.com.  The following is a direct link to his recordings:

AWildCanary.com/Library.html

Father Patrick Martin is a Blind Priest who expressed his gratitude for the Text-To-Speech (TTS) Mp3 audio format of the Poem for the blind and visually impaired, which he called a  "wonderful gift".  Previously he was only able to listen to Maria Valtorta's writings whenever another Priest was able to read them to him.

Chicie55.tripod.com & AdvancedChristianity.com/Pages/TTS/TTS_000.htm