Monsignor Octavio Michelini, was born in Mirandola, in the province of Modena.
After serving in the diocese of Carpi, he retired and devoted himself to being a chaplain in an association for the disabled in Modena. In the 1970s he joined the Marian Priestly Movement when Don Gobbi’s work was still in his infancy. Beginning in 1975, and throughout the last four years of his life, he received messages (which he wrote under dictation) and visions of Jesus and Our Lady. The messages were later published in a series of six small volumes entitled “Confidences of Jesus to a Priest”. In the messages Jesus in fiery words denounces the seriousness of the spiritual and moral situation in which the world finds itself today, the confusion and rebellion within the Church, highlights the shortcomings of current pastoral care, and explains that many of these problems are the direct consequence of the deep crisis of faith that pervades the Church today.
Moreover, the Lord announced to Msgr. Michelini a future “purification” to be followed by “a new springtime of peace and justice, for humanity and for the Church,” “a radiant dawn, never known before.” Archbishop Ottavio Michelini died on Oct. 15, 1979. “In cases concerning private revelations it is better to believe than not to believe. In fact, if you believe, and it is indeed true, you will be happy to have believed, since our Holy Mother asked for it. If, on the contrary, you have believed and it is proven false, you will receive all the graces as if it had been true, because you believed it to be true” (Pope Urban VIII)