Romualdo Maria Migliorini, a former missionary in Canada and apostolic prefect in South Africa, then prior of the Servants of Mary community in Viareggio, was Maria Valtorta’s spiritual director from 1942.
In a letter dated February 21, 1943, Maria Valtorta wrote: “Praise be to Jesus and Mary who, in this beautiful month of June [1942], brought you to me and made you my confessor on the day of the Visitation [July 2, 1942].” It was Father Migliorini who invited Maria to write her biography.
And it was he who provided her with the handwritten notebooks and transcribed them into typewritten copies.
Shortly afterward, Maria was saddened to learn that Father Migliorini had begun distributing pamphlets containing excerpts from the visions and dictations.
This marked the beginning of a spiritual conflict that intensified when the priest began treating two more cases of mystics. Both led him astray from the path he had chosen, and the priest refused to understand why.
Despite acknowledging his role as a “precursor,” as Maria Valtorta had called him, their relationship ended in 1946.
