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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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Denis Lacoste

France · 72 years old · 10/29/2026

Discovery of the work

By the site 1000 Reasons to Believe.

Impact on faith

These readings have shown me the simplicity and reality of the life of Christ. Both in the history of the 1st century and with an incredibly current humanity.

Graces received

I confessed for the first time in 50 years. The Eucharist and the real presence of Christ become a vital necessity. Even if I had never abandoned the faith or religious practice. I also admit to having a true regard of love for the Jews and their practices.

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

Try to "lose" even just a quarter of an hour?

Additional testimony

No reading has impacted me as much. Even the lives of saints have not allowed me to feel so strongly this imperative of conversion. The diversity of the apostles, their history, character, condition, intelligence, etc., allows one to identify and realize Christ's interest in each of us.

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Greg

United States · 52 years old · 10/24/2026

Discovery of the work

My grandmother

Impact on faith

The work helps me to know our Blessed Lord in a way that illuminates the Gospel. The more I know the Lord Jesus, the more I love Him.

Graces received

The work is a source of life (“My Word is Life”) that encourages me to pray, love, and embrace the sacraments. Time seems to stand still when I read even the most mundane episode of our Lord’s life.

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

If you desire to know Jesus more deeply, please do read this work. This work is a treasure and a special grace for our times.

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Giovambattista Alagia

Italy · 59 years old · 10/04/2026

Discovery of the work

I discovered the work thanks to the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Cornacchiola at the Three Fountains in Rome. At a certain point in the story, there was a reference to the seer Luigina Sinapi and nearby Maria Valtorta was mentioned. So I copied and pasted and became aware of the Work.

Impact on faith

I say that I have been reading the writings of Valtorta for more than 15 years now. I have bought and read the entire Work. I have also purchased the book by Ferri.

Graces received

I was confirmed only two years ago, I was always inconsistent in my faith even though I went to mass without confessing, but I never took the Eucharist because I felt it was not right towards Jesus. Now I confess often and I approach the Eucharist.

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

If you are looking for texts that emanate Love, read the Gospel.

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Angela

United Kingdom · 60 years old · 09/18/2026

Discovery of the work

I was looking for a plain way to understand the Gospels. I had bought an Open Source Bible, but it was no good. I found the Australian site with excerpts on it, then found the free PDF files. I downloaded them. I really feel I was led to finding them, such was my desire to read a plain story I could understand.

Impact on faith

It's the small things that got me, Jesus leaning against a tree, or folding his arms. So human, but his majesty and awe just leap of the page. We really get to know Him. And Our Lady, she is beyond amazing, what she went through is unbelievable. We get to know both of them .It's nothing short of a privilege.

Graces received

It's been transformative. I was just returning to my faith, really, and reading MV was just like a massive boost to being brought closer to the Lord. The Passion is a tough, tough read, which I go back to every Holy Week. I am a Catholic RE teacher and RCIA leader. I go to Mass every day. I love our faith. I would never have imagined my life as it is now.

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

I have tried to pass the work on, but people are reluctant for some reason. It's so beautiful; they are missing out. I will tell them what I have said here and pray they get it.

Additional testimony

The life of Mary and Jesus together is a revelation, as is the person of St. Joseph. The Nativity—mind-blowing. Things we don't really know about until now. It's just the way it all fits perfectly with what we already know. This is the story. Read it!

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Denise Boichard

France · 80 years old · 08/11/2026

Discovery of the work

By meetings.

Impact on faith

We are immersed in the land of Christ and we are closer to him

Graces received

Reinforced with my husband and encouraged to walk 17km a day to attend the Eucharist. More anchored in the world.

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

Read and you will understand that it is the work of Jesus

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Christophe GAUTHEROT

France · 47 years old · 08/11/2026

Discovery of the work

Following the reading of the Gospels, I felt a certain sadness. I told myself that we ultimately only have these few accounts as words and testimonies of the life of Christ, while I, on the other hand, had a true thirst for Jesus, to know Him better, to discover His life, His words, His actions, and His way of being. I then prayed to the Lord with this request: that He would allow me, in one way or another, to know Jesus better, even wishing that He could appear to me in a dream and tell me His story and His life Himself.

Impact on faith

I would say that Maria Valtorta has been a door for me that led me to deepen my knowledge and love of Jesus. Through her work, I discovered an in-depth teaching of the scriptures and a better understanding.

Graces received

A better understanding of the word as well as the power of Jesus in these Works but also in the word.

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

May God through Maria Valtorta offer us once again a treasure...

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Anonymous

FRANCE · 40 years old · 08/06/2026

Discovery of the work

I discovered the work of Maria Valtorta, thanks to the YouTube channel "Sous ton Manteau CĂ©leste".

Impact on faith

Listening to the audios of the work has helped me better understand the Gospel. With more clarity, dimensions, and understanding. A much gentler and more human dimension than the understanding I had of the Gospel until now. Now when I meditate on a passage from the Bible, I understand better and project myself better.

Graces received

Impact on my faith is that I love all the disciples and apostles of Jesus much more. A true understanding of the life of the Holy Virgin and of Jesus.

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

Trying it is adopting it! For my part, the work is like honey on my soul.

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Esteban Vargas

France · 23 years old · 06/18/2026

Discovery of the work

A friend whom I admire greatly spoke to me about it as a treasure. I paid little attention to it, then one day I listened to it being read on YouTube. I immediately recognized the voice of my Shepherd.

Impact on faith

I was already sensitive to Love. I sometimes felt strong inner movements, especially at mass. Reading the Work has multiplied them both in number and intensity. Being able to contemplate the Gospel of Our Lord Jesus so abundantly is an unimaginable grace. Everything has been multiplied in me: the love of Jesus, of His Church, of His Most Holy Eucharist, of the Blessed Virgin Mary, of the Holy Father, everything, everything, everything!

Graces received

I am a convert. I was already practicing when I discovered the Work. Yet, I feel like I have been converted a second time, and in a much more powerful way. I find such luminous answers there! I thought I had great faith before. It was tiny.

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

Nothing to lose. Everything to gain. If it's false, it doesn't matter. If it's true, it's a Treasure. I believe it with all my being.

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Derek Owens

Canada · 80 years old · 05/18/2026

Discovery of the work

Father Gino Violini received a copy from an Italian lady in Calgary. Father Violini asked me to read it to him. His reaction was, “I wish I had all this when I was a seminarian.” When I finished the last page, he asked me to start reading it again from page one.

Impact on faith

As I read on, I knew—or something in my soul assured me—that this was an authentic record of the life of Christ. An overwhelming conviction, full of love, came over me, assuring me beyond the shadow of a doubt that this was a true exposition of Gospel events. Its penetrating wisdom filled me with awe.

Graces received

It was a rich medicine for me, more effective than any spiritual retreat I had ever attended, and it compelled me to correct many things within myself and expel sleeping faults from my system. It was like a sieve, removing clumps of imperfections previously unnoticed by my conscience. The revelation was a radical reformer. It inspired justice and love in matters I had not considered before. It showed me my imperfections and steered me in the right direction. It gave me a picture of the perfect personality of Jesus, an example I wanted to copy.

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

It is a miracle almost impossible to imagine. It is Christianity from the Fountainhead. You will see the Gospel unfold before your eyes in bright colors. The day the Work was published, crowds should have lined up around the block to get their first copy.

Additional testimony

If I were a priest instead of a bookbinder, I would tell my congregation to study every lesson given to us in the Valtorta revelations. It would make them all saints.

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Jean-Pierre Gressin

France · 79 years old · 05/12/2026

Discovery of the work

About 30 years ago, a Catholic friend gave me several volumes of the first edition of the work. While reading a few chapters, I found Jesus too human and too severe and did not continue my reading. I also found this friend a bit excessive in her faith. Ten years later, the video by J-F Lavère convinced me of the authenticity of Maria Valtorta's writings. I resumed my reading and purchased all the published works, listened to videos on the web, USB key, etc...

Impact on faith

Nothing else interests me today, except Jesus, who grants us such grace through the gift of this work to humanity. I understand the immense path I must now travel. I try to attend Mass almost every day, adore the Most Blessed Sacrament, participate fervently in my prayer group, the daily rosary, apostolate on the web and around me, and frequent confession. When one is retired, there is so much time to pray. Health trials are offered with love. Maria is also our model. The goal is to do God's will in everything and at every moment. "Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me, yet not my will but yours."

Graces received

The graces... Because it is speaking to Jesus, always happy to thank him for all the graces he has already given us. Because he speaks to us with these writings but also deep in our hearts. "If he calls upon me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him, with long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation" PS 90.

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

Difficult when one sees the reluctance of some Catholics. For me, the scientific evidence is indisputable. I don't know how to speak to someone who lacks common sense. One must know how to set aside prejudices, demonstrate a certain holiness, a lot of love, encourage the person to read conversion testimonies, show the urgency of proclaiming the Gospel to the whole world, which is heading towards its downfall.

Additional testimony

I would like to say that even if it was not the writings of Maria Valtorta that were the source of my initial conversion, since I owe my conversion to the Holy Shroud of Turin at the age of 33, after a life perhaps worse or at least as disordered as that of Mary Magdalene; it is undoubtedly by the immense grace of the work that I have been able to hold firm through the trials I have faced since then until today. May God be blessed.

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