The Nativity of Jesus.

The One Who is Wisdom hasn't ceased to reveal, to the belief of many. For example, on April 23, 1943 (Good Friday), Maria Valtorta began taking dictation from Jesus and other heavenly persons, and later also receiving visions of scenes from His Mother's and His own life on Earth. At Jesus's behest, she wrote everything she saw and heard, filling 122 notebooks totaling thousands of pages. Maria received most of the revelations before 1947, but they continued until 1953. The writings were later published: The Gospel as Revealed to Me, or The Poem of the Man-God (a Work on the Life of Jesus), The Notebooks: 1943, The Notebooks: 1944, The Notebooks: 1945-1950, The Little Notebooks, Lessons on the Epistles of St. Paul to the Romans, and The Book of Azariah.

On February 28th, 1944, Maria received a vision of the Adoration of the Wise Men. According to her writings, there were three wise kings: Gaspar, Melchor, and Baldazar, "each having set out from three different points on the earth," "each of them unknown to the others," "from the far away Indies," as in "meridional Asia, where Turkey, Afghanistan, and Persia are located in our geography" (cf. Matt. 2:2), and that then "the star guides them from the north, the east, and the south, and by a miracle of God, it proceeds for the three of them towards one point. And by another miracle of God, after many miles, it gathers them at that point, and by a further miracle, it anticipates the Pentecost Wisdom, bestowing on them the gift of understanding and making themselves understood, as it happens in Paradise, where only one language is spoken: God's," and they then proceeded together from beyond the Dead Sea towards Palestine.

The three Wise Men stopped at Jerusalem expecting to learn from King Herod where the King of the Jews had been born, because they had come to worship Him. Herod called for the chief priests and teachers of the law to answer, and they replied, "In Bethlehem of Judah, for this is what the prophets have written" (Matt. 2:1-2).

After departing Jerusalem, the star reappeared and the Wise Men continued to follow until it stopped over a house in Bethlehem (cf. Matt. 2:11), which belonged to one of the twelve shepherds, Elias, who had adored the Messiah in a manger in a stable just outside the town nine to twelve months earlier with the other shepherds (cf. Lk. 2:16). That night of the adoration of the shepherds was when Elias invited Joseph and Mary to live with him and his wife, Anne, where they lived until their escape to Egypt (cf. Matt. 2:13-15). (The Poem of the Man-God: Vol. I)

Additional information from The Poem of the Man-God:

• The names of the twelve shepherds: Elias, Levi, Samuel, Jonah, Isaac, Tobias, Jonathan, Daniel, Simeon, John, Joseph and his twin brother Benjamin.

• The vision of the Adoration of the Shepherds can be read here.

• Jesus's commentary on the Wise Men can be read here.

• The real number of babies killed is thirty-two, of which eighteen in the actual town of Bethlehem and fourteen in the nearby country. Also six baby girls were slaughtered as the hired cut-throats could not tell them apart from baby boys because they were dressed alike, and also because of the darkness and their hurry to kill. The above detailed information is given by Maria Valtorta on a separate sheet added to the original manuscript.

Happy Christmas!