Joachim Bouflet

Maria Valtorta (14 March 1897 – 12 October 1961) was an Italian Catholic writer. A Franciscan tertiary and a lay member of the Servants of Mary, she reported that she had personal conversations with, and dictations from, Jesus Christ. She lived much of her life bedridden in Viareggio in Tuscany. She is best known for her 5,000 page book The Poem of the Man-God, first published in 1956 and later titled The Gospel as Revealed to Me. The book was mostly written from 1944 to 1947 and was later trans…