The 15,000 Handwritten Pages
Maria Valtorta was bed ridden in Viareggio Italy for most of her life due to complications from being struck in the back at random while walking on a street. Maria Valtorta was a member of the Third Order Servites of Mary, affiliated to the order to which her spiritual director, Fr. Romuald Migliorini, O.S.M. belonged.
On the morning of Good Friday 1943 she reported a vision in which Jesus appeared and spoke to her. She reported many more visions and conversations with Jesus and the Virgin Mary and said that Jesus had asked her to record her visions in writing. She continued to write her visions in her notebooks until 1947.
Her priest and others were allegedly surprised that the handwritten pages included no overwrites, corrections or revisions and seemed somewhat like dictations. The fact that she often suffered from heart and lung ailments during the period of the visions made the natural flow of the text even more unusual. Notable is the fact that the sentences attributed to Jesus in the visions had a distinct and recognizable tone and style that was different from the rest of the text.
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