Kidron
A mandatory passage between Jerusalem and the Garden of Olives, Bethany or Jericho, it is the name of a valley and the course of Water running through it.
Description
The Kidron is omnipresent in the work of Maria Valtorta. She describes it, at the beginning of spring, as:
“a small stream that carries very little Water, going through the gap between two low hills. The Temple is on top of one of the two; on the other, olive trees as far as the eye can see”[1]. In June it is just a “small course of Water” whose “not very abundant Waters flow in the center of its bed”[2]. Practically dry in July, “the Kidron, reduced to a trickle of Water, makes no noise”[3]. But it swells again in October: “the noise of the torrent, swollen by the autumn rains”[4].
Significant events
Jesus passes there very often, he goes up it with his Apostles, from the Cénacle to Gathhsemane, on the evening of Holy Thursday.
Its name
Kidron; Cedron, Kedron, (course of Water, Darkness, sadness).
Where is it mentioned in the work?
EMV 54.6 ; EMV 67.1 ; EMV 644.1 ;
Learn more about this place
Excerpt from the Geographical Dictionary of the Gospel Salton Maria Valtorta, by Jean-François Lavère:
An example taken from many others allows us to appreciate the extreme precision of Valtortian descriptions: “They return on the road to Bethany, which follows the course of the Kidron which makes an acute angle curve, after about a hundred steps from Shiloh”[5]. This sudden change of direction is located at the level of the King’s Gardens and En Rogel (see these words).A torrent that flows from north to south, in the valley located between the Mount of the Temple and the Mount of Olives. Its course continues to the Dead Sea. The descriptions of Maria Valtorta are consistent with the testimony of Chateaubriand, who specified that it is dry part of the year, and that in rainy springs, “it rolls red Water”[6].
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• 31° 46’ 25’’ N / 35° 14’ 19’’ E /
• +670mm