Mystical Calendar of Maria Valtorta

The mystical calendar of Maria Valtorta reports the major stages of her spiritual progression. It was established on February 10, 1946, at the request of Jesus who wanted to highlight the efforts and the will that Maria Valtorta showed to become the "pen of God." Jesus did this one week later, on February 17.

Three parts of this mystical calendar should be considered:

1. The events reported from March 14, 1897, to March 2, 1943. They are recounted in the Autobiography of Maria Valtorta.
2. Those reported from April 23, 1943, "to this day," i.e., February 1946.
3. A third part, which is not reported here but in later writings, will lead Maria Valtorta to total surrender.

The Mystical Calendar

"Our Lord told me to transcribe my act of offering, the hymn to Jesus Crucified, and other spiritual elements which had paved the way for my current state. I obeyed, writing these brief notes as an introduction."

Events recounted in the Autobiography

"My Mystical Calendar

• March 14, 1897. Born on G.B. Vico Street in Caserta.
• March 24 (?). Baptism at St. Helen's Church.
• October 2, 1901. With the Ursulines in Milan, Lanzone Street, and my first encounter with Jesus in the Passion.

• March 18, 1904. First Confession with the Ursulines.

• May 30, 1905. Confirmation with the Marcellines, Quadronno Street, Milan.
• October 5, 1908. First Communion in Casteggio with the Nevers Sisters and consecration to Mary Immaculate.
• March 4, 1909. I was sent to the Bianconi School of the Sisters of Charity of the Holy Child Mary and Capitanio.
• June 1, 1910. A Daughter of Mary.
• November 11, 1912. Memorable Exercises.... I proposed "sacrifice and duty in all things and at all times and received the vocation to pain for the sake of love.
• June 11, 1916. An admonitory dream: "It is not enough not to do evil; one must also not desire to do it," I was told by Jesus. And this put a check on the disturbances arising from many moral afflictions.
• February 11, 1922. St. Francis of Assisi spoke to my heart....
• January 1, 1923. "1 am thirsty! Grant that I may save souls to give them to You and take away everything else ......
• January 1, 1924. Renunciation of the world and affections for my spiritual salvation and that of many. Vow of chastity.
• January 28, 1925. St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus.
• Most Holy Trinity 1925. Act of offering to Merciful Love.
• May 4, 1928. Slavery in Mary Most Holy in keeping with Blessed Grignon de Montfort.
• May 21, 1929. In Castelverde di Cremona. The first touch of death and pain. Long live love!
• June 25, 1929. The Second Jubilee. Vow of chastity, poverty, and obedience.
• November 6, 1929. Postulant in the Franciscan Third Order.
• December 2 9, 1929. Women's Catholic Action.
• Holy Friday 1930. Agony in Church during the three hours of agony. First attack of angina pectoris.
• June 29, 1930. Ecce sponsa Christi! Veni ... ! And love accelerated the heart lesions and consumed.
• November 23, 1930. Taking the habit as a Third Order Franciscan and renewal of vows and offerings.
• July 1, 1931. Act of offering as a victim to Divine Justice and Love. My act of offering.

• January 4, 1932. The guardian angel and the syncope

• December 18, 1932. The cloister began because of the worsening of illness.
• April 7, 1933. Passion Friday. To accelerate immolation I repeated the act of offering under the protection of Our Lady of Sorrows.
• Holy Friday 1934. Adoring Jesus Crucified, burning with com passionate love, I sang my psalm of praise of pain and love (see below).
• April 1, 1934. Easter. Jesus rose. I was nailed to my bed.... My heart had given out after the ardent beating on Friday.
• April 18, 1934. Continuing with the desire to accelerate the devouring fire, I renewed my act of offering, joining to Mary's protection that of St. Joseph, which was celebrated on this date.
• April 21, 1934. Let us sanctify and use pain! I was becoming a zealot of suffering.
• June 30, 1935. The death of my father.... And Jesus asked me for the sacrifice of not being present, saying good‑bye, or seeing him‑though I was living in the same house.
• October 5, 1938. A sister in the Congregation of the Most Holy Child Mary, under whose protection I renewed all my offerings.
• February 9, 1939. "Lord, so that this father may not lose faith in You and hope, save his little daughter and give me her illness. " And the pleurisy struck me, whereas Anna‑Maria miraculously healed when she was already in agony and death was expected from one minute to the next. She had been ill for three months with pulmonary gangrene after getting pneumonia and lung attacks. She was fifteen months old....
• April 1, 1940. My correspondence with Giuseppe began on his theories etc.
• June 4, 1941. I saw the mysterious door opening and a glow of light emerging, and within there was a Voice telling me not to disdain Giuseppe Belfanti, but, rather, to show him profound charity, for he might have found mercy before the Divine Heart because of his search for God, even if conducted along the wrong paths.
• March 2, 1943. Identifying itself as the Voice of Jesus‑after having spoken to me as an unknown voice when I was awake or dreaming‑and joining to the words the touch of his hands drawing me to his chest, the Voice clearly said to me, "But I remain for you..."

Events recounted in writings from 1943 to 1946

• "April 23, 1943. Good Friday. The first dictation.160
• October 4, 1943. My mother died. And, as with my father, I was denied the chance to be present, say good‑bye, or see her though we were only a few yards apart.
• December 1943. The visions.
• March 25‑31, 1944. Taking the habit and professing in the Third Order of the Servants of Mary.
• April 10‑May 9, 1944. The hour of Gethsemane! The time between the sixth and ninth hour. The atrocity of the suffering which Heaven does not console. The hour of hell....
• May 9, 1944. The Word returned. The suffering was atrocious, but accompanied by Jesus, my Cyrenean.
• July 4, 1944. Temptation. Satan tried to exploit the offense I had received from those I had benefited to tempt me violently to simulate the "Voice" in order to curse them. A harsh battle, overcome through love for God.
• July 15, 1944. Peace flowed forth to console me in the face of cruel men and the violent temptations of Satan.
• August 11, 1944. The promise: "In a few days you will be freed," the Voice said, in opposition to the words of distrustful men. And on September 3 we were freed, and I had occasion to know human egoism increasingly and cling to God so as to be able to forgive and forgive and forgive, in order to obtain a soul for God.
• October 16‑17, 1944. Giuseppe converted from heresy and was freed from spiritism after four years and six months of struggle (see below).
• November 10, 1944. Absolute abandonment in this exile! God alone. And forgiving, forgiving so as finally to convert....
• December 24, 1944. Return home. I consecrated the house to Our Lady of Fatima in addition to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and St. Joseph.
• October 5, 1945. Extreme Unction. I offered the penance of death for the spiritual life of Giuseppe, who in these months had not advanced much as a soul and had acted badly as a relative. But I had always forgiven to arrive at the goal. I had always offered the sufferings of his conduct for this purpose....
• November 21, 1945. First Confession and First Communion of Giuseppe at age sixty‑five. Thank You, Lord!

And I could add the dates‑also mystical‑of the blows of the scourge (November 10‑20, 1944), of the chalice of Divine Blood (around Easter 1945), and of the chalice of Gethsemane (October or December 1945), but I have neither the desire nor the strength to look up the exact dates.

This is my mystical calendar until the present."

Further discovery

• The Spiritual Life of Maria Valtorta
• Act of Offering to Merciful Love and Divine Justice.
• Hymn to love and suffering
• Her Invisible Stigmata
• Tertiary of the Servites of Mary
• Her Rosaries
• The Virgin of Fatima in the life of Maria Valtorta