Newsletter N. 6/25 – The life of Jesus in history

The Centro Editoriale Valtortiano has published two very important books: the first came out about a year ago and the second just now, as a continuation of the other. It is “La vita di Gesù nella storia” (The life of Jesus in history) volumes I and II, by profs. Liberato De Caro, Fernando La Greca and Don Agustín Gimenéz González. The two books partly take up the four volumes “I cieli raccontano” (The skies tell) which are authored by Prof. Liberato De Caro himself; they can all be purchased from the publisher (CEV of Isola del Liri – FR) (in Italian –> click here).

The foundations are Maria Valtorta’s texts: the scientific data, certain and unappealable, that can be extracted from “The Gospel as it was revealed to me”, that is, effectively “The life of Jesus in history”. As you know – also because I repeat it “opportune et importune” – what makes Valtorta’s writings universal and important is the superabundant presence of elements of Galilean science. Therefore the historical life that really happened of Jesus is well present in “The Gospel”, by virtue of scientific clarifications. Now, this fact is amazing because if true – and it is true! – would mean that the canonical Gospels recount real facts and not more or less imaginative interpretative inventions. The clash with exegetes could not be more vast and radical: all modernist suppositions are discarded, zeroed, because with the science present in “The Gospel” these suppositions are shown to be worthless. A first very strong question emerges: is Valtorta’s work then more important than the canonical Gospels? No, absolutely! Valtorta’s “Gospel” remains an authoritative commentary, a key to interpretation if you will, but the point of reference that cannot be changed is the Canonical Gospel. Valtorta’s writings do not stand for themselves, their only support is the Canons.

Furthermore, the book does not stop at the historical-geographical aspects: “to summarize this book of ours with a metaphor, its reading would be like visiting a monothematic exhibition (the chronology of the life of Jesus), but the many windows [present in the text] will allow the reader to broaden the view on a panorama that goes beyond what is proposed in the exhibition,  allowing him to look out and contemplate the wonders of all that lies beyond” (Vol. II, p. 19 of the Italian text).

The importance of these two volumes is difficult to express, because it goes beyond words; Yes, it is not an exaggeration to formulate it like this. By applying the current astronomical charts of NASA to the descriptions that Maria Valtorta makes – without even realizing it – of the moon, the sun and the stars, it is possible to establish precisely the dates of the events that the evangelists recount. The probability of the random coincidence of these data was calculated at 1 in 10 at the 84th (“10” followed by 84 zeros; for an immediate comparison, the probability of winning the first prize in the Italian Lottery is much greater: about 1 in 10 at the 7th!). Maria Valtorta’s precision is not something that can be explained humanly. On this basis, Fr. Gimenéz declared these facts “inescapable,” that is, from which there is no escape.

The demythologizers of the Gospels were able to affirm, with Bultmann, that “one cannot use electric light and radio or have recourse in case of illness to modern medical and clinical discoveries, and at the same time believe in the world of spirits and miracles proposed to us by the New Testament.” Against the crowd of those people who accept this thesis by destroying the historical truth about Jesus and the Gospels with the tragic result of cooling – to say the least – the Christian faith in so many people, including priests and bishops, stands Maria Valtorta and the scientific foundations of her “Gospel”. Here lies the importance of her writings. Against those who extinguish the Gospels in an entirely earthly rationalism or evaporate it into complete insignificance, there are the precise and scientifically irreproachable accounts of Valtorta’s “Gospel”. In this way the Gospels, with all their contents, come back to life and give Eternal Life to those who want it.

The two texts venture into the paths and times traveled by Jesus, to give us an absolutely precise chronology (at the end of the second volume). The reality of Our Lord’s life, together with the apostles and the first disciples, develops in a three-dimensional dimension. You see, observe, listen and – with a little imagination but always rooted in facts – you perceive the scents of written stories. Day, month and year repeat the historical truth of Jesus without ceasing. 

We thus discover the dates of fundamental events, such as the birth, death and resurrection of the Saviour, together with those of secondary events, always linked to the small and large places where they took place. For example, the call of the first apostles took place on March 30, 31; the meeting with the Samaritan woman at the well of Sychar on 13-15 January 32; the Sermon on the Mount (Beatitudes) on 2-8 March 32; the resurrection of the son of the widow of Naim on March 28, 32; that of Jairus’ daughter on July 6, 32; on September 14, 32 the first multiplication of the loaves; on March 5, 33, the Transfiguration; on May 12, 33, the conversion of Zacchaeus. These are just some dates of evangelical events deducible from the physical skies described by Maria Valtorta; Some are “minor” events, but precisely for this reason it is important to know their specific historical-geographical location: this means that all the many episodes are true, precise, exact in times and places.

Dr. N. F. Zaragoza, professor at the San Dámaso Ecclesiastical University of Madrid, puts this important sentence in the preface: “The book you have in your hands is a precious and profound contribution to the study of the historicity of the Gospels and is rightfully part of the line of research on the history of Jesus.” Hence the importance of reading these books, true “vaccines” against all interpretations that tend to make the Gospels vanish into unreal dreams or nightmares.

— fr. Ernesto Zucchini

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