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Maria Valtorta (14 March 1897 – 12 October 1961) 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. From 23 April 1943, 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 book ''The Poem of the Man God''.〔Lindsey, David Michael. ''The Woman and the Dragon, The: Apparitions of Mary'', (Jan 31, 2001) ISBN 1565547314 Pelican pp. 324-326〕 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.〔''To Florence con Amore. 90 Ways to Love the City'' by Jane Fortune (1 May 2011) ISBN 8890243481 Florentine Press page 50〕 ==Early life== Valtorta was born in Caserta, in the Campania region of Italy, the only child of parents from the Lombardy region, her father being born in Mantova and her mother in Cremona. Her father, Giuseppe, was in the Italian cavalry and her mother, Iside, was a teacher of French. At age 7 she was enrolled in the Institute of the Marcellienne Sisters and at age 12 she was sent to the boarding school in Monza administered by the Sisters of Charity.〔 Freze, Michael. ''Voices, Visions, and Apparitions'' (Sep 1993) ISBN 087973454X OSV Press p. 251〕 As the family moved around Italy due to her father's military career, she received a classic education in various parts of Italy and focused on Italian literature. In 1913, when she was about 16 years old, her father started his retirement from his position and the family moved to Florence. She stated that in 1916 she had a personal religious experience and felt a closeness to God which transformed her life.〔 In 1917, during the First World War, she volunteered as a Samaritan nurse and for 18 months worked at the military hospital in Florence. On 17 March 1920, at the age of 23, while she was walking on a street with her mother, a delinquent youth struck her in the back with an iron bar for no apparent reason. As a result of that injury, she was confined to bed for three months. Although she seemed to have recovered, and was able to move around for over a decade thereafter, the complications from that incident eventually confined her to bed for 28 years, from April 1934 to the end of her life.〔''The Poem of the Man God'' Volume 1, by Maria Valtorta, 1986, ISBN 99926-45-57-1 pages iv-xii〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maria Valtorta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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