Kidron

The Kidron and its valley.

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

Kidron Valley, the Temple wall on the right, the Mount of Olives on the left.

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”. In June it is just a “small course of Water” whose “not very abundant Waters flow in the center of its bed”. Practically dry in July, “the Kidron, reduced to a trickle of Water, makes no noise”. But it swells again in October: “the noise of the torrent, swollen by the autumn rains”.

Significant events

Jesus passes there very often, he goes up it with his Apostles, from the Cénacle to Gethsemane, on the evening of Holy Thursday.

Its name

Kidron; Cedron, Kedron, (course of Water, Darkness, sadness).

Where is it mentioned in the work?

GRM 54.6 ; GRM 67.1 ;

GRM 510.4 ; GRM 536.7

GRM 644.1 ;

Learn more about this place

Excerpt from the Geographical Dictionary of the Gospel According to 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”. 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”.

Explore

• 31° 46’ 25’’ N / 35° 14’ 19’’ E /

• +670mm

Loading...

Notes and references

Note: Quotations from the work of Maria Valtorta on this page currently use machine-translated text and will gradually be replaced by the official English translation. Until then, the official translation may be consulted through the reference link provided with each quotation.