Hidden and coherent chronology of Jesus’ life in the literary work of Maria Valtorta

Emilio Matricciani, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy

Abstract
Maria Valtorta (1897−1961) was a mystical writer active in the years of World War II. Her literary work contains a detailed life of Jesus, without any explicit dates with respect to the Julian calendar. She sets Jesus’ birth (Nativity) on Kislev 25, first day of the Hebrews’ feast of Hannukah, and Jesus’ age at his death, on a Friday, in 1737 weeks. She writes that the Passover of the year before his death fell on Saturday. All these chronological data are unusual in mystical writings concerning Jesus’ life and raise the question about their coherence and self-consistency. We have studied these data and show that they refer to a hidden and coherent chronology. The astronomical and calendar analysis of these data allow: i) To set Jesus’ crucifixion on 23 April 34, a unusual date but the only one that can harmonize Johannine and Synoptic traditions about the Last Supper; ii) To verify that the Nativity set on Kislev 25 is compatible only with the Eastern tradition, 6 January 1 AD; iii) To assess that between birth and death’s dates exactly 1737 weeks have elapsed. Maria Valtorta proposes also an original story about the Star of Bethlehem: the Magi would have realized the birth of the Messiah by counting the days elapsed between some astronomical conjunctions, decoding the meaning of the numbers, so obtained, through Gematria, in close agreement with all other details of her narration.

Keywords
Maria Valtorta, Jesus of Nazareth, Nativity Day, Hanukkah, Herod the Great, Magi, Star of Bethlehem, Gematria, Last Supper. Crucifixion.

Cite this paper
Liberato De Caro, Fernando La Greca, Emilio Matricciani, Hidden and coherent chronology of Jesus’ life in the literary work of Maria Valtorta , SCIREA Journal of Sociology. Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2021 | PP. 477-529. 10.54647/sociology84718

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