Newsletter N. 5/25 – True Jesus, true chronology

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I want to share some wonderful news for anyone who seriously reads Maria Valtorta, and in particular the essential ten volumes of “The Gospel as Revealed to Me”. Professor Liberato De Caro has published his scholarly chronology of the life of Jesus in an online encyclopedia dedicated to the mystic from Viareggio (–> LINK: click here to open the page in a new window).

The page is freely accessible and therefore available to anyone who wishes to consult it, for any reason.

This is a very important undertaking for “The Gospel”: the impressive amount of data present in the text certifies the Galilean scientific nature (verifiable by anyone and rigorously) of Maria Valtorta’s work. On her bed of pain and eternal glory, she wrote and described the skies of 2,000 years ago. Verification of the veracity of these descriptions led three scholars—Professor J. Aulagnier in 1993, Engineer J.F. Lavère in 2012, and Professor Liberato de Caro in 2016—to discover their unprecedented importance.

There are at least two fundamental themes: 1- Valtorta’s Opera reports details, scientifically verifiable by anyone, that precisely correspond to data from the Holy Land at the time of Jesus and that the writer could not have known or “invented”, and which therefore raise the question of the origin of the writings themselves: could they be solely human?; 2- from some of this information it is possible to trace a precise dating of the events that occurred in Jesus’ life.

The chronological question presents a significant complication: the French page dedicated to it—also in the aforementioned online encyclopedia—compares various possible datings, which differ by four years (–> LINK: click here to open the page in a new window). This depends on the starting point and the rigorousness of the method followed by various scholars. It is not my intention to resolve the issue here; I simply point out that Lavère himself claims he was not precise and that those who were should be taken into consideration; this is why I follow the studies of prof. De Caro, who has made scientific accuracy his strong point.

A further difficulty arises: the Valtortian chronology precisely described by prof. De Caro is expressed using data from the Julian calendar, while the one we currently use is the Gregorian calendar (promulgated by Pope Gregory XIII—from whom it takes its name—on Friday, October 15, 1582). There is a difference of about ten days between the two. For detailed explanations, I refer you to the link already cited, and of course to prof. De Caro’s texts.

I also point out that Hebrew date converters are available online, such as this one:
HEBREW DATE CONVERTER LINK.

In conclusion, let us remember that everything that science confirms about Maria Valtorta’s writings is of the utmost importance both for her and for us. For her, because it means she didn’t invent anything, and we can increasingly say that “here is the finger of God”; for us, because by recognizing this “fountain” that God has placed on our path to quench our spiritual thirst, we can confidently know Jesus in his most holy humanity: he is the same God-Man who truly walked “our” paths in specific years, months, and days, and who now reigns gloriously throughout the ages.

— fr. Ernesto Zucchini

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