The Notebooks: 1943. by Maria Valtorta - 1996.

Isola del Liri, Italy Centro Editoriale Valtortiano , 1996. Paperback Fine in Wraps: flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the covers. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome like-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing no flaws. Bright and Clean. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.25 x 5.75 x 1.15 inches). 626 pages. Translated from the Italian by David G. Murray. Language: English. Weight: 1 pound, 7 ounces. Paperback. Maria Valtorta (1897 – 1961) was a Roman Catholic Italian writer and poet, considered by many to be a mystic. She was a Franciscan tertiary and a lay member of the Servants of Mary who reported personal conversations with, and dictations from, Jesus Christ. An injury confined her to bed for the last 28 years of her life. Her spiritual life was influenced by reading the autobiography of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux and, in 1925, at the age of 28, before becoming bedridden, she offered herself to God as a victim soul. From 23 April 1943, until 1951 she produced over 15,000 handwritten pages in 122 notebooks, mostly detailing the life of Jesus as an extension of the gospels. Her handwritten notebooks containing close to 700 reputed episodes in the life of Jesus were typed on separate pages by her priest. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith gave permission to publish her work as it is without modifications for the “true good of readers and in the spirit of the genuine service to the faith of the Church.”