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These detailed testimonies reveal the profound impact of Maria Valtorta's work on the spiritual lives of its readers. Each account witnesses the graces received and conversions experienced.

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These detailed testimonies have been collected according to a structured methodology, allowing precise documentation of the impact of Maria Valtorta's work on readers' spiritual lives. Each testimony addresses the discovery of the work, its impact on faith, the graces received, and recommendations for other potential readers.

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Elisabeth

France 路 56 years old 路 07/27/2026

Discovery of the work

Searching for videos of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary on the internet.

Impact on faith

Through the detailed descriptions of the life of Jesus and the Holy Virgin Mary with His apostles; through the teachings and explanations of Jesus and Mary given for certain scenes of their lives. Through the love and pain of Jesus and the Co-redemption of the Holy Virgin Mary by living their Passion from the birth of Jesus to the resurrection of Christ, the infinite pain of Mary during the Passion of her Holy Son. Through the joy of the description of the resurrection of Jesus. Through the descriptions of the Ascension, the Assumption, and the crowning of Mary.

Graces received

Return to the practice of faith: masses, prayers, rosaries, penances, Sacrament of Reconciliation and Confirmation that I had not done, being at the service of the Church by being a catechist with children to transmit to them the love of God and participating in the choir.

What would you say to someone hesitating to discover this work?

There are various resources to discover at each one's level: on the internet, YouTube, books, personal testimonies.

Additional testimony

This Work enlightens me and provides deeper and more precise understandings of the 4 canonical Gospels of the Church. This Work has changed my vision of faith.

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Th茅r猫se Lamouche

France 路 57 years old 路 05/11/2026

Discovery of the work

By chance on YouTube, my life completely changed. I feel like I'm breathing the scent of Jesus' skin when I listen to his gospel, and Jesus has become for me the present and loving God that I had lost sight of since the time of my childlike piety. It is truly a gospel for these times of darkness where the tragic battle to save every soul is being fought. For while we sleep, Evil devours souls to a degree similar to the beginnings of Christianization. Thank you Lord Jesus for this providential Gift. You have always saved us by all means, and blessed be Maria Valtorta.

Impact on faith

It's simple, I can't do without it anymore. It has become my breath. I had never realized before the Real Presence of Jesus leaning like a mother over the wounds of her children. I thought I loved Him and had faith, but I realized that I only had a vague idea of: "I Am Who Am". It's difficult to explain, Jesus is Real, Active, Present in every detail of our lives and the destiny of the World.

Graces received

Return to the church, to prayer, to the sacraments, and above all to intimate conversation with God, like a child who speaks with his Father at any time and on any occasion.

What would you say to someone hesitating to discover this work?

You have nothing to lose and EVERYTHING to gain. We have a Treasure in our hands!

Additional testimony

I am aware of WHO GOD IS, as I could never have conceived.

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St茅phanie RIBOLLET

France 路 53 years old 路 04/30/2026

Discovery of the work

Through the videos on YouTube and then through the 3 books The Notebooks (1943, 1944, and 1945-50) that I bought and read in their entirety.

Impact on faith

This reading teaches me to know the Trinity and the purpose of Creation. I discover Jesus who speaks, who speaks to us and teaches us, and all the people of the Bible. It is a reading that enriches me with words of Love, where Good reigns, and it helps me move towards God by knowing Him better and better thanks to Jesus' explanations regarding the Bible.

Graces received

I was baptized, I made my first communion with the fourth-grade class. My parents had no religious practice, but my grandmother was very devout. So I spent 40 years in the desert searching for answers to my existential questions in areas related to the paranormal, occultism, and other Eastern religions... But it never satisfied me because the ego dominated. I perceived that the focus was on the Self... and little on the good of others... I had received all the answers when I was young (catechism) but there was like a veil preventing me from seeing the Truth, it took a depression and watching videos of Maria Valtorta to reopen my eyes and ears!!

What would you say to someone hesitating to discover this work?

Listen to videos of Jesus' explanations to Maria Valtorta (you need to listen on different subjects) and you will understand that Love is the sole and unique meaning of our life and that it gives Meaning to what we experience in this Life and what we will experience in the Other.

Additional testimony

By reading Maria Valtorta, one understands Everything! ... The Creator and the purpose of Creation, our existence. By listening to the words of Jesus to Maria Valtorta, one feels that he Loves us like a father, he Teaches us what we need to know, he Educates us for our greatest Good.

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Alessandro Notari

Italy 路 57 years old 路 04/14/2026

Discovery of the work

A friend of mine who had read the work told me about it.

Impact on faith

It has filled my faith with the ingredients and teachings of Christ, making the Gospel a human testimony in which all events appear real, concrete, almost contemporary.

Graces received

I have resumed praying daily and regularly attending Mass on Sundays. I have treasured all the life teachings provided by Christ, so well explained in the testimony of Maria Valtorta.

What would you say to someone hesitating to discover this work?

Abandon yourself and you will be overwhelmed by the light!

Additional testimony

"In the middle of the journey of our life," 7 years ago, I was catapulted out of ordinary life due to a terminal cancer illness. A progressively strong awakening of spirituality exploded within me: initially, the rereading of the Gospel according to Luke, then the first pilgrimage to Medjugorje, then the pilgrimage to the holy places in the Holy Land, and finally the reading of the work of Maria Valtorta. The reading of Maria Valtorta was the closing of the circle: returning from the Holy Land and finding in the work the places where I had just been gave me a granite-like concreteness about the truth of Christ's existence. It allowed me to attribute a human dimension to all the people who came into contact with Jesus, with their doubts, falls, thoughts: I could have been one of them. The work is a compendium of Christ's teachings expressed in simple and disarming language: I couldn't resist and made a small "summary" of 40 pages with all the teachings of life, which changed my existence! It is a monumental work!

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Caroline

France 路 55 years old 路 04/12/2026

Discovery of the work

I discovered the writings of Maria Valtorta through the internet more than 15 years ago on a forum. Despite the criticism, I decided to start reading: it saved me both humanly and spiritually.

Impact on faith

Reading the entirety of Maria Valtorta's writings has instructed me in the Catholic faith (through Thomistic doctrine) and erased the poverty of the "catechism" that was given to me as a child. Reading Maria Valtorta's writings has imparted to me both a great sensitivity (attention) to the reading of the canonical Gospel texts, but also the Old Testament and a "3D vision." Afterwards, I underwent a long period of purification, sometimes very painful, and faced serious health problems: this led me to desire a particular consecration. I made private vows until my death.

Graces received

In a few months of reading, I had the unwavering desire to attend mass every Sunday even though I knew nothing. It became unthinkable for me not to go. My 10-year-old daughter asked for baptism herself, and I sought confirmation that I hadn't received. Frequent confessions. Frequent Holy Communion. Daily prayer of the rosary, Lauds, and Vespers.

What would you say to someone hesitating to discover this work?

"My people perish for lack of knowledge." Jesus wants us to know Him. Truly. Humanly and Divinely. For He says, "It is not the distant memory of a crucified man that is what one calls knowing someone." Read Maria Valtorta and you will know Jesus. If you wish to no longer be influenced by ideologies and heresies from wherever they come, read Maria Valtorta.

Additional testimony

Very marked by the vision of the young Roman mother of a very small daughter abandoned by her (Roman) husband to whom Jesus asks to remain alone even in the event of divorce, I made the decision not to seek to "rebuild" my life with someone after my husband decided to leave, wanting to stay alone with Christ. My 26-year-old daughter, a lawyer, consecrated daily to the Virgin Mary since her baptism, is today baptized, confirmed (by her own initiative), practicing, and wishes more than anything to be a mother and to found a Christian Catholic family. She has never criticized either her father or myself. She is recognized for her balance and kindness. There remains between my husband and me, after 15 years of separation, a true mutual respect and a peaceful communication.

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Gabriele Zolli

Italy 路 68 years old 路 04/07/2026

Discovery of the work

I was with my wife in Medjugorje and through our accompanying parish priest, he spoke to us with so much love about the work of Maria Valtorta, and since then I have begun to Love Jesus.

Impact on faith

It was a vivid and real presentation of Jesus. Reading the work, it feels like having direct contact with Jesus, and I physically and spiritually feel his teachings.

Graces received

Return to God. A very painful return to God but ultimately a true and concrete return to God.

What would you say to someone hesitating to discover this work?

To start purchasing the last volume of the Passion of Jesus and to read it, even if tears will flow, then to follow with the 9th and reach the 1st, and after a few years, to start again. As it was my experience. It is inevitable.

Additional testimony

It helped me to see Jesus again in a more intimate form. More direct to the heart.

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Valentina

Italy 路 47 years old 路 04/07/2026

Discovery of the work

A friend gave me the Notebooks and then I purchased and read the entire Work

Impact on faith

I felt accompanied by the Lord in the reading, I felt His Presence in my life. I understood better what sin is and I wanted to detach myself from it and truly convert.

Graces received

Return to the Sacraments, Renewed Love for the Church. Intense prayer and even the desire to consecrate myself to God, which led me to a serious vocational discernment.

What would you say to someone hesitating to discover this work?

As far as I know, it seems that it was also read by Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Father Amorth did not deny its usefulness, on the contrary, he said that many people had told him that they had derived good fruits of conversion from it.

Additional testimony

Many phrases by Maria Valtorta have remained impressed upon me and internally still guide me in my spiritual life. The Lord has used this Work to speak to me internally on many occasions, and also to uplift me in moments of dryness and discouragement, in which He has internally rekindled the flame of conversion within me.

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Susanna Rosa

Italy 路 72 years old 路 04/07/2026

Discovery of the work

By chance, or rather, by the Lord's decision: I came across a post that featured excerpts and I decided to first purchase the Gospel, then the Notebooks and the other works, including the Autobiography.

Impact on faith

Reading the Gospel has allowed me to know Jesus more deeply. The Gospels are the Only Revelation, but knowing the context in which the events they report took place made me feel the Lord close, and I truly lived together with Him, with the Most Holy Mary, the Apostles, and all the characters who accompanied Him in His Earthly Journey. And knowing Jesus means loving Him. Prayer, the daily Holy Mass have become necessary for me. And this has led me to pay more attention to the events of my life, so much so that I always find answers to my doubts, comfort, and hope. The Lord has a wonderful imagination: He helps me in ever new ways through readings, homilies, or events, even simple but enlightening ones. And so I know that coincidences do not exist but GOD-INCIDENCES and that we always have His Sweet Presence beside us: we just need to learn to listen to Him.

Graces received

As I have already said, spirituality has taken a fundamental place in my life and with it a deep serenity, joy, and hope in every situation.

What would you say to someone hesitating to discover this work?

I would recommend trying with one volume: buy the first one and let Jesus do the rest. Reading the complete work in print is the best option, much more so than stopping at reading the posts from the Foundation: not because they are not useful for getting a first idea, but because the Lord Himself, in the work, says that it was meant to be read in its entirety. And you will be won over by the Lord.

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Sylvain

France 路 45 years old 路 03/26/2026

Discovery of the work

I discovered the work through 2 means: the documentary "Miracle" by Pierre Barn茅rias and the testimonies of Florian Boucansaud.

Impact on faith

The Gospel as it was revealed to me did not nurture my love for the Gospel; it was after reading the work that I was finally able to start reading the Gospel. I had never read it before! Maria Valtorta's work gave me a thirst to know the Gospel, to read it, and finally to be nourished by it. Regarding Christ, the work allowed me to get closer to him. To learn to know him in the heart. To weep for him. And above all, to understand the importance that the creation of the Church had in his eyes. How much it is his Church. This also reconciled me with the Church, the masses, and the sacraments.

Graces received

I have rediscovered the faith of my childhood. I received the sacrament of confirmation, which truly confirmed my return to the Catholic faith after 20 years of wandering, particularly in Tibetan Buddhism and the New Age. I have become a practicing Catholic: I pray the rosary daily, attend mass at least twice a week, and confess often. I live and therefore now understand the importance of the sacraments, and thus the importance of the Church.

What would you say to someone hesitating to discover this work?

There is a before and an after. The work speaks to the heart. We learn to know Christ from the inside. And, as an added gift, we can fully meet his mother and weep with her.

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Roseline (Nathalie)

France 路 50 years old 路 03/05/2026

Discovery of the work

Having been away from the Catholic Church for 40 years, in 2022, after several providential events, notably a sacramental one (the imposition of the scapular of Mount Carmel and 2 healings of incurable diseases), and the intervention of the Holy Spirit, I listened to the work of Maria Valtorta on YouTube by a sister (divine mercy) who evangelizes worldwide. A relative had heard about it while reading a magazine.

Impact on faith

The work of Maria Valtorta allowed me: a clearer understanding of the Gospels and the Bible, which I had never really understood. I became aware of our role as active Christians. One can see the painful and fully human condition of Mary and Jesus. [They became present in my life]. This allowed me to find the words to bring back to mass: my parents, my 3 already adult children, and relatives. Then to have providential encounters, binding us in a community of charity. I was able to acquire a fervent faith at the age of 48 and improve in my prayer life (one rosary per day in prayer union with Rosary International and the Rosary Confraternity). Currently, the association "Marie de Nazareth" by Olivier Bonnassie sends a newsletter "Jesus Today," which correlates the daily Gospels with passages from the work of Maria Valtorta. It is practical for progressing in the teaching of the word of God and His infinite mercy. I discovered the open and free Catholic Church, whose soul.

Graces received

Insight into the word of God and the meaning of suffering and martyrs, like Mary Magdalene. Assistance in evangelization and the mission to spread conversion to Christ. By listening and re-listening to the writings of Maria Valtorta during times of disturbances, worldly life's torments, or demonic attacks, it realigns me with the truth, the good, the right, the just. It is a help for calming and reassures me. Then in the evening and at night, it aids in falling asleep and cures insomnia.

What would you say to someone hesitating to discover this work?

The teachings of Jesus explain the unspecified passages of the Bible, for example, the wedding at Cana in detail; and how to behave towards nature, the poor, the oppressed, etc. We learn how to be a Christian in relation to our neighbor, ourselves, and God. Mysteries of the Church are resolved. It allows for meditation on the peace and mercy (agape = charity) of God.

Additional testimony

Available for free listening on YouTube or as a podcast on Dailymotion, or on a USB stick for those who have difficulty with reading, it's convenient while doing manual activities, or walking, etc. I plan to be able to read and reread the books when my means allow me. It nourishes Christian meditation as advised by several saints like Saint Padre PIO.

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