Collection conceived, produced and put into perspective by François-Michel Debroise and Benoît de Fleurac.
Preface by Véronique Lévy: “Fifteen contemplations, transcribed from the entire works of Maria Valtorta, are gathered at the heart of this collection, the strength of the martyrs.
The Lord revealed to her that all these lives sown were oblations of love intimately united to His own; that their scattered blood kindled, like a fire on earth, the Gospel of Faith. The Holy Innocents, Stephen, Pheniculum, Petronilla, Irene, Flora, Justine, Valentine, and so many other names, sometimes forgotten, are intertwined in a rosary of lilies woven from the Body and Blood of Christ: hosts immolated in the Eucharist.
Maria Valtorta sees them, hears them: loving, living, suffering, and dying… The blood of the martyrs fertilized the nascent and fledgling Church… the militant, suffering, and triumphant Church…” (from the preface by Véronique Lévy).
