On the following dates, Maria Valtorta received and described these visions:
February 19th, 1944
Burial of Jesus
March 27th, 1945
Jesus's Crucifixion
On the following dates, Maria Valtorta took dictation from Jesus regarding
the Veil of Veronica, now commonly called the Manoppello Veil, and the Shroud of Turin:
"Can you say that I have not loved this land [Italy], where I have brought the relics of My life and My death: the house in Nazareth where I was conceived in an embrace of luminous ardor between the Divine Spirit and the Virgin, and the Shroud where the sweat of My Death imprinted the sign of My pain, suffered for humanity." (excerpt from The Notebooks: 1943, July 22nd, 1943)
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"The wounds in My palms, which you have not seen because I barely move My left hand, both because of the habit contracted in work and because it is more wounded, were inflicted in the following way.
The executioners' idea was to hang Me by the wrist joints, immediately above the carpus, to make the attachment more secure. And, in fact, after having extended Me on the cross, they pierced My right hand at this point.
But, since the builder of the scaffold had marked the hole on the left (he usually marked the place for the nails to enable them to enter more easily into the thick wood and make the hanging of a body placed not horizontally, but vertically, and with no other support but three long nails, more secure), more distant than the point which My wrist joint could reach, after having stretched My arm to the point of producing the tearing of My tendons, they decided to hammer the nail into the center of My palm, between the bones of the metacarpus.
This is not observed in the Turin Shroud because the right hand covers the left hand." (excerpt from The Notebooks: 1943, December 29th, 1943)
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"The veil of veronica is also a goad to your skeptical souls. Since you, o rationalists, o tepid people vacillating in your faith, proceed through arid examinations, compare the face of the veronica with that of the Holy Shroud. One is the Face of a living person, the other of a dead one. But length, width, somatic types, form, distinctive features, are identical. Superimpose the images. You will see that they correspond. It is I. I Who wanted to remind you how I was and how I had become out of love for you. If you had not gone astray, if you were not blind, those two Faces should be enough to bring you to love, to repentance, to God." (excerpt from The Poem of the Man-God: Vol V, February 2nd, 1944)
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"You have seen the wreath of bruises around My kidneys. Your scientists—to offer proof for your incredulity regarding that proof of My suffering which is the Turin Shroud—explain the manner in which blood, cadervic sweat, and an overstrained body, in being mixed with the aromas, were able to produce that natural painting of My lifeless, tortured Body.
It would be better to believe with no need for so many proofs in order to believe. It would be better to say: 'This is the work of God!' and bless God, Who has granted you possession of the irrefutable proof of My crucifixion and the tortures preceding it!
But since you are no longer able to believe, now, with the simplicity of children, but need scientific proofs—poor faith, yours, which, without the prop and goad of science, is unable to stand up straight and walk—know that the fierce wounds to My kidneys were the most powerful chemical agent in the miracle of the Turin Shroud. My kidneys, nearly shattered by the scourges, were no longer able to function. Like those of people burned in a blaze, they were unable to filter, and the urea accumulated and spread throughout My Blood and My Body, causing the sufferings of uremic intoxication and the reagent transuding from My Corpse which fixed the impress upon the cloth. But whomever among you is a doctor or whoever among you is ill with uremia can grasp the sufferings which the uremic toxins must have caused Me, so abundant as to leave an indelible imprint." (excerpt from The Notebooks: 1944, February 20th, 1944)
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"But on the Turin Shroud the face of someone dead for several hours appears. The usual process of edema had already begun, then, all the more intense in someone killed with torture like Mine. It is the transudates spreading from the serous membranes which make you say that a dead person looks the way he did when alive. It is the great pacification which death extends over even the most tortured faces.
In addition, consider that the image appears on a cloth and is fixed upon it through a process of natural aromas and salts.
You know that any stain on a cloth appears prone to expand. But in reality the features of My Face on the morning of the Resurrection—that is, when I ceased to be covered by the Turin Shroud—were swollen in this way.
Life returned to the Living One. But during those forty hours I was quite dead and in no way different from every man who is prey to death. I did not decompose because of the swift Resurrection. But My Body was subject to the rule common to dead bodies, especially those dying of innumerable wounds. I as Victim wanted to annihilate Myself in this respect, too. All decomposition begins with swelling. Let this be directed to all who still have doubts about the veracity of My death." (excerpt from The Notebooks: 1944, July 20th, 1944)
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"Now, you know that only a real body yields blood if wounded and that only a real corpse presents a separation of the water part of the blood—which you term 'serum'—from the other, which coagulates into clots or at least is already thicker and darker than living blood, if the time elapsed between death and the discharge of blood is still too short. But I—as My Turin Shroud attests—discharged blood that was already clotted because I had been dead for some time when My side was stricken, and I was already growing cold and stiff, very quickly, on account of the specific conditions which had brought about My rapid death." (excerpt from The Notebooks: 1945-1950, February 18th, 1947)
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"My Turin Shroud, O Maria, for whoever is able to see, is not just a testimony that I truly died and rose again, but also testifies to the way I was conceived and born, not according to the laws of humanity. It is thus a confirmation of the truths that My religion teaches: My being conceived through the action of the Holy Spirit, the Divine Maternity of Mary, Her perpetual virginity, My Passion and Death, and My glorious Resurrection. But this is confirmation for those to whom it is granted to see, in the light of God." (excerpt from The Notebooks: 1945-1950, May 20th, 1949)
February 19th, 1944
Burial of Jesus
March 27th, 1945
Jesus's Crucifixion
On the following dates, Maria Valtorta took dictation from Jesus regarding
the Veil of Veronica, now commonly called the Manoppello Veil, and the Shroud of Turin:
"Can you say that I have not loved this land [Italy], where I have brought the relics of My life and My death: the house in Nazareth where I was conceived in an embrace of luminous ardor between the Divine Spirit and the Virgin, and the Shroud where the sweat of My Death imprinted the sign of My pain, suffered for humanity." (excerpt from The Notebooks: 1943, July 22nd, 1943)
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"The wounds in My palms, which you have not seen because I barely move My left hand, both because of the habit contracted in work and because it is more wounded, were inflicted in the following way.
The executioners' idea was to hang Me by the wrist joints, immediately above the carpus, to make the attachment more secure. And, in fact, after having extended Me on the cross, they pierced My right hand at this point.
But, since the builder of the scaffold had marked the hole on the left (he usually marked the place for the nails to enable them to enter more easily into the thick wood and make the hanging of a body placed not horizontally, but vertically, and with no other support but three long nails, more secure), more distant than the point which My wrist joint could reach, after having stretched My arm to the point of producing the tearing of My tendons, they decided to hammer the nail into the center of My palm, between the bones of the metacarpus.
This is not observed in the Turin Shroud because the right hand covers the left hand." (excerpt from The Notebooks: 1943, December 29th, 1943)
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"The veil of veronica is also a goad to your skeptical souls. Since you, o rationalists, o tepid people vacillating in your faith, proceed through arid examinations, compare the face of the veronica with that of the Holy Shroud. One is the Face of a living person, the other of a dead one. But length, width, somatic types, form, distinctive features, are identical. Superimpose the images. You will see that they correspond. It is I. I Who wanted to remind you how I was and how I had become out of love for you. If you had not gone astray, if you were not blind, those two Faces should be enough to bring you to love, to repentance, to God." (excerpt from The Poem of the Man-God: Vol V, February 2nd, 1944)
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"You have seen the wreath of bruises around My kidneys. Your scientists—to offer proof for your incredulity regarding that proof of My suffering which is the Turin Shroud—explain the manner in which blood, cadervic sweat, and an overstrained body, in being mixed with the aromas, were able to produce that natural painting of My lifeless, tortured Body.
It would be better to believe with no need for so many proofs in order to believe. It would be better to say: 'This is the work of God!' and bless God, Who has granted you possession of the irrefutable proof of My crucifixion and the tortures preceding it!
But since you are no longer able to believe, now, with the simplicity of children, but need scientific proofs—poor faith, yours, which, without the prop and goad of science, is unable to stand up straight and walk—know that the fierce wounds to My kidneys were the most powerful chemical agent in the miracle of the Turin Shroud. My kidneys, nearly shattered by the scourges, were no longer able to function. Like those of people burned in a blaze, they were unable to filter, and the urea accumulated and spread throughout My Blood and My Body, causing the sufferings of uremic intoxication and the reagent transuding from My Corpse which fixed the impress upon the cloth. But whomever among you is a doctor or whoever among you is ill with uremia can grasp the sufferings which the uremic toxins must have caused Me, so abundant as to leave an indelible imprint." (excerpt from The Notebooks: 1944, February 20th, 1944)
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"But on the Turin Shroud the face of someone dead for several hours appears. The usual process of edema had already begun, then, all the more intense in someone killed with torture like Mine. It is the transudates spreading from the serous membranes which make you say that a dead person looks the way he did when alive. It is the great pacification which death extends over even the most tortured faces.
In addition, consider that the image appears on a cloth and is fixed upon it through a process of natural aromas and salts.
You know that any stain on a cloth appears prone to expand. But in reality the features of My Face on the morning of the Resurrection—that is, when I ceased to be covered by the Turin Shroud—were swollen in this way.
Life returned to the Living One. But during those forty hours I was quite dead and in no way different from every man who is prey to death. I did not decompose because of the swift Resurrection. But My Body was subject to the rule common to dead bodies, especially those dying of innumerable wounds. I as Victim wanted to annihilate Myself in this respect, too. All decomposition begins with swelling. Let this be directed to all who still have doubts about the veracity of My death." (excerpt from The Notebooks: 1944, July 20th, 1944)
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"Now, you know that only a real body yields blood if wounded and that only a real corpse presents a separation of the water part of the blood—which you term 'serum'—from the other, which coagulates into clots or at least is already thicker and darker than living blood, if the time elapsed between death and the discharge of blood is still too short. But I—as My Turin Shroud attests—discharged blood that was already clotted because I had been dead for some time when My side was stricken, and I was already growing cold and stiff, very quickly, on account of the specific conditions which had brought about My rapid death." (excerpt from The Notebooks: 1945-1950, February 18th, 1947)
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"My Turin Shroud, O Maria, for whoever is able to see, is not just a testimony that I truly died and rose again, but also testifies to the way I was conceived and born, not according to the laws of humanity. It is thus a confirmation of the truths that My religion teaches: My being conceived through the action of the Holy Spirit, the Divine Maternity of Mary, Her perpetual virginity, My Passion and Death, and My glorious Resurrection. But this is confirmation for those to whom it is granted to see, in the light of God." (excerpt from The Notebooks: 1945-1950, May 20th, 1949)
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