Mary and Matthias of Chuza

These are two young orphans from the Esdraelon Plain. She is between eight and nine years old, he is four. Their father died at work and their mother, pregnant, "killed by excessive fatigue." Indeed, after the death of her husband, so that her master Ismaël ben Phabi could keep her, "she had to add to her service that of her husband because he said: 'I made a contract for two laborers and, to keep you, I demand your work and that of the dead.' And she died from it with the child she was carrying. Ismaël, known to be the most ruthless master in the region, then drives away the young children, useless mouths for him:

"On the road, the hungry dogs."

They end up frightened and hungry on the property of Jacob de Méron in anger, who also chases them away: for him, they are thieves and they are not from the region:

"They must be very poor children because they have two poor little worn-out and even torn winter garments, and a small sad and suffering face. (...) Clinging to her miserable little garment is her little brother. 'I am hungry, Lord. Yesterday they gave me only one bread, and I kept it for Matthias... Why didn't they put us with mother in the tombWater?' The little girl cries sadly and her brother does the same."

Faced with Jacob's refusal to help the orphans, Jesus makes a late autumn apple tree bear fruit. The fruits collected feed the hungry children.

In the past, to reward him for having given him a bread and shelter, Jesus had blessed the fields of Jacob of Méron, then reduced to misery: his harvests had therefore been very abundant and he was thanks to this "the richest in the region this year."

Jacob inherits a curse: he will be needy, but not completely destitute. Jesus explains to Peter what will happen to him: "Justice. He will not know hunger because his granaries are stocked for a long time yet, but scarcity because the seed will not yield grain and the olive trees and apple trees will bear only leaves."

Jesus takes with him the children he brings and entrusts them to Johanna of Chuza who became sterile after her illness and the death of her firstborn. Dying, she had been healed by Jesus. She and Chuza her husband, very happy, adopt them. Jesus says to them about the children:

"Come. They are rough, frightened, but good. Trust in Me who read the Hearts and the Future. They will bring Peace and unity to your union, not so much now but in the Future. In their love, you will find your love (...)’"

Joanne runs to caress them and "holds the two orphans to her bosom, kissing their emaciated cheeks, while they watch amazed at the beautiful lady whose clothes are covered with jewels."

Jesus predicts the destiny of happiness of Mary of Chouza and her Blessed death for which we have found no historical trace.

Mathias and Mary benefit from an apparition of the resurrected Jesus, during the additional Passover. In Judaism, this feast allowed those who had been prevented from doing so, to perform the Passover rite one month later. In the work of Maria Valtorta, Jesus, before His Passion, had dismissed from Jerusalem the youngest or most sensitive Disciples. He had arranged to meet them for this additional Passover.

His name

Mary: in Hebrew Miryam. This common name can mean bitterness or "the one who is exalted," "Prophetess" or the feminine of "Lord."

Mathias: Mattathias - Matthias - Matthew: come from the Hebrew "mattityah" gift of the Eternal - Historical reference: the father of the Maccabees brothers, liberators of Israel.

Where is he mentioned in the work?

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