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GRM 2

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Chapter title: Anne and Joachim make a vow to the Lord.

Date of vision: Tuesday, August 22, 1944

Calendar: September 22 A.D. (beginning of Tisri)

Location (map): Nazareth

Cycle: Birth and childhood of the Virgin Mary

Summary: First apparition of Anne and Joachim. Anne weaves in her house, until a woman comes to fetch water. She leaves her child Alphée, whom she spoils with fruit from her garden. The boy loves her, and she loves him back, but she's sad not to be a mother. Joachim arrives in the meantime, and they rave about the child's beauty. They then talk about Anne's barrenness, and Joachim urges her to go to the Temple once more, not only for the Feast of Tents, but also to make a long prayer to the Lord. He mentions the women of Israel who have given birth very late in their old age, and always hopes that the Lord will hear them. Anne agrees with his idea and declares that they will make their vow to the Lord. Their offspring will be his, provided he grants it to them...

Chapter contents: 2.1: Anne at her job. 2.2: A neighbor entrusts her with her child. This fills her with joy. 2.3: Joachim arrives, also rejoicing. The mutual love of a childless couple. 2.4: Hope for a miraculous birth of a child consecrated to God. 2.5: The cycle of the Virgin Mary's birth begins.

Previous edition: Tome 1, chapter 2

GRM 4

The Gospel as revealed to me

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Chapter title: Anne announces her maternity with a canticle. Her womb bears Mary's immaculate soul.

Date of vision and dictation: Thursday, August 24, 1944.

Calendar: Sunday, December 23, A.D. 22, according to Valtorta.fr. End of March 21 according to maria-valtorta.org (Jewish calendar: Nisan 3740).

Location (map) : Nazareth

Cycle: Birth and childhood of the Virgin Mary

Summary: In Nazareth, Anne sings a canticle, which Maria transcribes. Meanwhile, Joachim comes home and is surprised to hear her humming these words. He asks her to repeat it back to him, and when Anne reaches a certain passage, announcing that she is finally carrying a child in her womb, her voice breaks and she reveals her maternity to her husband. They embrace and share their great joy. Anne recounts when she was given the grace of motherhood: in the Temple, she saw a light descend upon her. They talk about the name they will give the child, and her mother already senses that it will be a girl.

Then comes a dictation on Mary's conception and the wisdom of the righteous people who were Christ's grandparents.

Chapter contents: 4.1: Anne sings, prays and smiles at her job. 4.2: She announces her maternity to Joachim. 4.3: In the Temple a fire came to me. 4.4: We will call her Mary. Star of our sea, pearl, happiness. 4.5: The Word acts on Anne. 4.6: Mary's immaculate soul. 4.7: What the first parents would have been.

Previous edition: Tome 1, chapters 5 and 6

GRM 5

The Gospel as revealed to me

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Chapter title: Birth of the Virgin Mary. Her virginity in the eternal mind of the Father.

Date of vision: Saturday, August 26, 1944 (EMV 5.1-6)

Date of dictation : Sunday, August 27, 1944 (EMV 5.7-15)

Calendar: Saturday, September 6, 21 AD

Old Julian calendar: Saturday, September 8, 21 A.D.

Jewish calendar: 10 Tishri 3741.

Location (map): Nazareth

Cycle: Birth and childhood of the Virgin Mary

Summary: There is a drought in Nazareth. Joachim works in the garden and Anne joins him. She is suffering from the heat, and they talk about the state of the vegetation. A storm is about to break, so they return home. Anne is about to give birth, and Joachim is worried because his wife is not in pain during childbirth. Apart from that, the storm impresses everyone with its violence. Then Mary is born and wails, and everything stops: a splendid rainbow is born in the sky. Anne and Joachim name their daughter Marie.

A long dictation is then given by Christ. He speaks of the Immaculate Conception and virginity of his Mother. He quotes the Book of Proverbs and applies it to Mary. Then he speaks of man, who was destined to be the king of Creation, and for whom God made everything: stars and planets, seas and oceans, plants and trees, animals. Man, however, was fallen by Satan. God, who knows everything, knew in advance of his sin and had already foreseen the way to remedy it: by sending his Son, through Mary. He then goes on to describe the Immaculate Conception's victory over Satan. He ends the dictation by speaking of procreation before the Fault, of the fact that men in a state of grace should not have experienced death or suffering in childbirth, like Mary. He then closes by speaking of the virginity of the All-Beautiful.

Chapter contents: 5.1: The garden suffers a severe drought. 5.2: Anne confides her great peace at the approach of term. 5.3 : A violent storm. 5.4: A gigantic rainbow, a star and an anticipated moon greet the birth. 5.5: A detailed portrait of the child. 5.6: Mary is handed over to Anna, who prophesies over her. 5.7: To speak of Mary's immaculate conception is to plunge into love. 5.8: In God's mind at the origin of beings. 5.9: God's consolation and joy. 5.10: Creation made for man, his king. 5.11: God knew what man would be. 5.12: God created the Bride to be the Mother of God Incarnate. 5.13: Childbirth willed by God and willed by Man. 5.14: Satan, this little girl has defeated you. This is God's revenge. 5.15: Mary's virginity.

Previous edition: Tome 1, chapters 7 and 8

GRM 7

The Gospel as revealed to me

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Chapter title: Little Mary with Anne and Joachim. The Son's Wisdom is already on her lips.

Date of vision and dictation: Tuesday, August 29, 1944

Calendar: August -18

Jewish calendar: Ab 3743

Location (map): Nazareth

Cycle: Birth and childhood of the Virgin Mary

Summary: Anne is with Mary in Nazareth. The little girl plays in the garden and brings her flowers. She tells her the story of each one, and her mother is astonished when Mary mentions Solomon, for example. Her child replies that she seems to have always known this, and wants Anne to tell her a story about the coming of Emmanuel. The little girl then asks her when the prophecy will take place; she even wonders if God won't be able to shorten the waiting time if she prays a lot, a lot, a lot. Anne finally answers in the affirmative, and the Immaculate declares that she will pray and remain a virgin for her request to be granted. The future Mother of Jesus also reveals her desire to serve the one who will bear the Savior, and a few moments later, she asks Anne how the Lord can save her if she commits no sin. Joachim responds, saying that the Savior has saved her in advance. Finally, the happy family mentions the Temple, which Mary will soon join, and promises to pray for her dear parents. After this chapter, Jesus gives a dictation on his Mother's early wisdom, speaking of reason and intelligence, the gift God had given our First Parents.

Chapter contents: 7.1: Little Mary brings flowers to Anne. 7.2: A story imagined for each flower. 7.3: How long will it take to have Emmanuel? 7.4: I will make myself a virgin to hasten his coming. 7.5: How can he save me if I do not sin? 7.6: When will you lead me to the Temple? 7.7: Spiritually precocious children. 7.8: Reason is one of the things that makes us most like God. 7.9: Mary was the Super Eve, the masterpiece of the Most High.

Previous edition: Tome 1, chapters 11 and 12

GRM 14

The Gospel as revealed to me

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Chapter title: The bride and groom arrive in Nazareth

Date of vision: September 6, 1944

Calendar:March 6 A.D.

Location (map): Nazareth

Cycle: Marriage to Joseph

Summary: Maria describes Nazareth. Mary returns to her city, after years of living in the Temple. She is betrothed to Joseph, who accompanies her, along with Zechariah and Elizabeth. Nazareth celebrates with them. They arrive at the house and Joseph, Zechariah and Elizabeth show her Joachim's home and garden. The Virgin also met Alpheus, Mary of Cleophas and her children. Then she meets Sarah, and her son, Alphée, Anne's boyfriend. Joseph is touring the house with his wife, and her brother learns that they won't be having the wedding right away. He is astonished, and Joseph replies that they will not perform the ceremony until Mary's sixteenth birthday. The future saint then makes her promise that she will call on him whenever she needs him. The family takes their leave, and Zechariah decides to leave Elizabeth to teach her cousin how to be a perfect housewife. This will also allow Mary to decorate her house to her liking.

Chapter contents: 14.1: The road through the hills of Galilee. 14.2: Triumphal entry into Nazareth. 14.3: Joseph points out Mary's house from afar. He is the one who will work there. 14.4: Mary welcomes Alphaeus and Sarah. 14.5: Joseph offers himself to Mary as a confidant. 14.6: The wedding will take place when she is sixteen. 14.7: Elizabeth will stay with her cousin for a while.

GRM 14.1-2

The Gospel as revealed to me

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14.1 A very blue sky of a mild February is over the hills of Galilee. The gentle hills that I have never seen in the early history of Mary, are now instead as familiar to me as if I were born there.

The main road is fresh looking because of last night’s rain and it is neither dusty nor muddy. It is hard and clean as if it were the street of a town and it runs between two hedges of hawthorn in bloom. The hedges are so white that they look like a snowfall. The scenary is broken by the monstrous conglomerations of cacti, with thick leaves like palettes, spiked with stings and decorated with the huge granades of their peculiar fruits, grown without stem on the top of the leaves. Because of their colour and shape, the cactus leaves always give me the impression of sea depths and coral reefs, of jellyfish and other deep sea animals.

Beyond the hedgerows there is the country. The purpose of the hedges is to fence in the grounds of the various owners, and thus they stretch in every direction forming a strange geometrical design of curves and angles, lozenges, squares, semicircles and the most unbelievable acute and obtuse angled triangles, a design all sprayed with white, like a strange ribbon thrown over the country just for fun and over which hundreds and hundreds of birds fly, chirp, sing, in the joy of love, while working to build their nests. In the fields the corn is taller than in Judaea. The meadows are full of flowers and there are hundreds of fruit-trees all in full bloom, that look like clouds of vegetables, white, red, pink, with all shades of these colours: they seem to be an answer to the light clouds in the sky, which the setting sun paints pink, light lilac, periwinkle violet, opal blue and coral orange.

With the light evening breeze the first petals fall from the trees in blossom and they look like a swarm of little butterflies searching for pollen on wild flowers. And from tree to tree there are festoons of vines still barren, except at the top of the festoons, where there is more sunshine, and the first little innocent, surprised, trembling leaves are beginning to open.

The sun is setting peacefully in the sky, which is so benign in its deep blue. The light makes it even more limpid and causes the snow on Mount Hermon and other far away mountain tops to shine.

(...) Nazareth is already showing its houses, spread out on the undulations of its hills. Lit up from the left by the setting sun, it shows the white of its low wide little houses bordered in pink and surmounted by terraces. Some of them, fully illuminated by the sun, seem to be near a fire, so red are the fronts of the houses because of the sun, that also lights up the water of the ponds and of the low wells, with practically no parapets, and from which squeaky pails of water are being pulled up for the houses as well as water-bags for the orchards.

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GRM 57

The Gospel as revealed to me

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Jesus arrives in Nazareth with his apostles. He invites his disciples to accompany him home to meet his Mother. On his arrival, Christ is greeted by a flock of children. He responds to their greetings, then arrives at his home. His Mother is naturally happy to see him, but she is also anxious, because her relatives have told her what he did in the Temple. After their reunion, the disciples get to know him (except John, who has already met her) and they all sit down at table. Mary of Alphaeus is present in the house, and Jude tells her of his decision to follow Jesus. She is delighted, and the group shares anecdotes about Jesus' life. The vision ends.

GRM 57.1

The Gospel as revealed to me

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57.1 Jesus is near Nazareth with His cousin and the six disciples. From the top of the hill where they are, the white village can be seen amongst the green of the trees, with its houses scattered up and down the sweetly undulating slopes, gently declining in some cases, more steep in others.

«Here we are, My friends. That is My house. My Mother is at home because there is smoke rising from the house. Perhaps She is baking. I will not ask you to stay with Me, because I imagine you will be anxious to go to your homes. But if you wish to share My bread with Me and meet My Mother, Whom John has already met, then I say to You: “Come”.»

The six disciples, who were already sad because of the impending separation, are all happy again and they accept the invitation wholeheartedly.

«Let us go, then.»

They go down the hillock quickly and take to the main road. It is evening. It is still warm, but the shades of evening are falling over the country, where the crops are beginning to ripen.

They go into the village. Women are coming and going from the fountain, men standing on the thresholds of their little workshops or working in the kitchen gardens wave to Jesus and James.