St. Annibale di Francia | Luisa Piccarreta

Click below on the Blue Links for more information:

Painting in the Church of the Rogation Fathers in Rome
Saint Annibale Di Francia
1851-1927
Beatified Oct. 7, 1990
Canonized on May 16, 2004

Extraordinary Confessor of Luisa Piccarreta for over 17 years.
Ecclesiastical Censor of her Writings,
Founder of the Rogationist Fathers, the Daughters of Divine Zeal,
and the Anthonian Orphanages

…I saw the blessed soul of Father Hannibal before me, near my bed, invested  with light, suspended from the earth, fixing on me, but without telling me one  word. I too felt mute before him, and Jesus added: “Look at him, how transformed he is. My Will is light, and has transformed that soul into light;  It is beautiful, and has given him all the shades of perfect beauty; It is  holy, and he has been sanctified. My Will possesses all sciences, and his soul  has been invested by divine science. There is nothing which My Will has not  given to him. Oh! if all understood what Divine Will means, they would put  everything aside, they would care about doing nothing else, and their whole  commitment would be to do My Will alone.”

…And now he enjoys, in the  sea of light of the Divine Will – and this is more than anything.”  June 1, 1927 – Vol. 22

***

St. Annibale was the Ecclesiastical Censor of Luisa’s writings until his death in 1927. Volumes 1-19 bear his Nihil Obstat. Additionally, he was responsible for publishing Luisa’s work, The Hours of the Passion, in 1915.