Ottavio Michelini (14 August 1906 – 15 October 1979) of Mirandola, Italy was an Italian Roman Catholic priest, considered to be a mystic. In 1975, he began to publish books pertaining to his visions of Jesus and Mary. Michelini was a priest of the Diocese of Carpi, which obtained for him in 1967 the title of Monsignor as a Chaplain of His Holiness. On the writings of Maria Valtorta, whose Poem of the Man God was placed on the Index of Forbidden Books in 1960, he claimed that Jesus dictated to him the following quote: . Message from 19th september 1975.