(2) LUISA PICCARRETA, LITTLE DAUGHTER OF THE DIVINE WILL

(2) LUISA PICCARRETA, LITTLE DAUGHTER OF THE DIVINE WILL

LUISA PICCARRETA WAS BORN IN CORATO, PROVINCE OF BARI, ITALY ON APRIL 23, 1865. LUISA BEGAN THE WRITINGS OF THE PASSION, VIRGIN MARY BOOK AND THE THIRTY-SIX VOLUMES ON FEBRUARY 28, 1899. SHE WAS BED-RIDDEN FOR SIXTY-TWO YEARS, ALTHOUGH SHE HAD NO PHYSICAL ILLNESSES. LUISA DIED ON MARCH 4, 1947 IN THE KINGDOM OF THE DIVINE WILL

CONFESSORS AND SPIRITUAL ADVISORS:

FATHER COSMA LOIODICE                                    FIRST CONFESSOR

FATHER MICHELE DE. BENEDICTIS                    APPOINTED IN 1884

FATHER GENNARO DE GENNARO                       1898 - 1922

FATHER ANNIBALE MARIA DI FRANCIA*         1919 - 1927

MGR. FERDINANDO DE BENEDICTIS                  1922 -1926

FATHER FELICE TORELLI                                       PARISH PRIEST

FATHER CICCIO BEVILACQUA                             OCCASIONAL CONFESSOR

FATHER LUCA MAZZILLI                                       OCCASIONAL CONFESSOR

FATHER BENEDETTO CALVI**                              1926 - 1947

*LUISA'S EXTRAORDINARY CONFESSOR WHO GAVE THE NIHIL OBSTAT TO THE ITALIAN VERSION OF THE FIRST NINETEEN VOLUMES OF HER WRITINGS. FATHER ANNIBALE WAS THE FOUNDER OF THE ROGATIONISTS FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS OF DIVINE ZEAL(WHO TRANSCRIBED LUISA'S WRITINGS). FATHER ANNIBALE WAS CANONIZED BY  POPE JOHN PAUL II ON MAY 16, 2004

**THROUGH LUISA''S INTERCESSION, WAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD, PRIOR TO HIS FUNERAL. HE THEN LIVED TO BURY LUISA ON MARCH 4, 1947

BISHOPS:

ARCHBISHOP REGINALDO G.M. ADDAZZI

                       GAVE THE TITLE OF SERVANT OF GOD

ARCHBISHOP GIUSEPPE CARATA

                       BEGAN THE ASSOCIATION OF THE DIVINE WILL

ARCHBISHOP CARMELO CASSATI

                       GAVE THE NIHIL OBSTAT TO THE ITALIAN VERSION OF THE HOURS OF                              THE PASSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THE VIRGIN MARY IN THE

                       KINGDOM OF THE DIVINE WILL. GAVE HIS APPROVAL FOR THEIR

                       PUBLICATION IN 1997. OPENED THE CAUSE FOR THE BEATIFICATION OF

                       THE SERVANT OF GOD.

ARCHBISHOP GIUSEPPE M. LEO

                       GRANTED HIS IMPRIMATUR TO THE FIRST NINETEEN VOLUMES

ARCHBISHOP GIOVANNI BATTISTA PICCHIERRI

                       REQUESTED THE CAUSE OF BEATIFICATION TO BE CONTINUED.

*SAINT PIUS X TOLD FATHER ANNIBALE DI FRANCIA THAT HE MUST READ LUISA'S WRITING OF THE HOURS OF THE PASSION ON HIS KNEES FOR THIS IS OUR LORD WHO IS SPEAKING IN THEM.