Maria Valtorta

Maria Valtorta
Maria Valtorta at age 15, 1912
Born	(1897-03-14)14 March 1897 Caserta, Kingdom of Italy
Died	12 October 1961(1961-10-12) (aged 64) Viareggio, Italy
Resting place	Basilica of Santissima Annunziata, Florence
Nationality	Italian
Genre	Christian mysticism, visions
Notable works	The Poem of the Man-God The Book of Azariah

Maria Valtorta (14 March 1897 – 12 October 1961) was a Catholic Italian writer. She was a Franciscan tertiary and a lay member of the Servants of Mary who reported personal conversations with, and dictations from, Jesus Christ. She lived much of her life bedridden in Viareggio in Tuscany where she died in 1961. She is buried at the Basilica of Santissima Annunziata in Florence.

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. It was mostly written from 1944-1947 and details the life of Jesus and edited by her spiritual advisor, Father Romualdo Migliorini.^[1] Many further books were published; the first was placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1959, and has remained controversial since its publication. In 2025, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith declared her writings as non-supernatural in origin.^[2]