Messina 20-5-1924
Letter to Luisa Piccarreta

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In my current morning meditations – he writes – I am rereading Volume 12. I had already read volume 13 before.

The revelations on the Divine Will are sublime(...).

The doctrine seems sublime and divine!
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Canon Hannibal Maria Di Francia

Messina  20-6-1924
Letter to Luisa Piccarreta

Most esteemed one in the Lord,

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In my current morning meditations – he writes – besides the Hours of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, I am carefully reading and meditating on two or three chapters of your writings on the Divine Will, and the impressions I get are intimate and profound. I see a sublime and divine science in them, although I have not yet been able to penetrate them thoroughly, for my lack of intelligence.
It is necessary to make these writings known to the world now, and I believe they will do a great deal of good. This science of the Divine Will is lofty, and yet these writings dictated by heaven present the doctrine in all its purity and clearness.

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Canon Hannibal Maria Di Francia

Messina 12-7-1926
Letter to Luisa Piccarreta

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I continue to read your writings: They are always sublime revelations, with illustrations worthy of the divine Creator, as for example, the comparison of the heartbeat to the one act of the divine Fiat.

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Canon Hannibal Maria Di Francia

Trani 28-8-1926
Letter to Luisa Piccarreta

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Pray to the Lord to inspire us on how to do the publication and do it completely according to His Divine Volition. Amen.

My thought is that the first print should be done in Oria, and that afterwards the whole printing should pass to Messina, where I reside, under my own eyes.

In the meantime, continue the 15th in black, in which You started to write what happened to you during your infancy, childhood and youth. Write everything. Write also a faithful and complete narration of the illness - that is, your being bedridden; when it was, how it happened, in what year, the oppositions of the Bishops, of the Confessors, etc., etc.

Also, in Volume 19 write everything – everything that Our Lord reveals, even tiny things in passing.

Everything for Holy Obedience, great Lady, for the Glory of God, for your mortification and for the good of souls. Be careful not to distort or hide anything!

Canon Hannibal Maria Di Francia

Altamura  5-10-1926
Letter to Luisa Piccarreta

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His Excellency, the Archbishop of Trani has already put his Imprimatur on seven more volumes of your writings. Meanwhile, I am finishing volume two, five and six. Truly, the Lord has guided you with immense goodness and charity.
On Saturday, God willing, I will leave for Oria, to begin the printing of the first volume, divided in two parts. 

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As far as myself, I feel a great Divine assistance for penetrating into the spirit of these writings and coordinating them for the purposes of the Divine Will. Surely, Our Lord can infuse this intellect in whomever He wants, I being unworthy of a Mission so holy!

Fiat Voluntad Tua, Domine!

Canon Hannibal Maria Di Francia

Oria  15-10-1926
Letter to Luisa Piccarreta

Blessed daughter in J. C., Our Highest Good,

His Excellency, the Archbishop of Trani, has given me authority over you regarding your writings and their publication, in other words, to direct you and to see to the publication of your writings.

These faculties cover everything you have written up to this point, and all that you write in the future.

The Archbishop was pleased to put so much trust in me for this work – which is something that Jesus himself has disposed- that he named me Ecclesiastic Reviewer for all the publications of his three dioceses. He even went so far as to get involved himself, by giving his authoritative Imprimatur after my Nihil Obstat.

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Canon Hannibal Mary Di Francia

Messina 19-11-1926
Letter to Luisa Piccarreta

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Finished on 23-11-26

Yours in Jesus Christ.

Father Mary Hannibal

The Writer of this letter dictated by Rev. Father, Sister M. Gesuele of the Most Holy Redeemer, implores your prayers and will keep the secret!

P.S. The publication of the entire work, with the printing, will be of about 25 thousand copies. Moreover, since the work will be thick, because it is the Divine Word speaking, and this is substantial Word of the Eternal Father, you can understand well how great the expense will have to be. Nevertheless, the Great Divine Treasurer certainly does not lack the means, even if it should cost a million. Besides, the books will be sold quickly, maybe more than the Hours of the Passion, and the money spent will return, and maybe even more.

Praised be Jesus and Mary!

Messina 24-1-1927
Letter to Luisa Piccarreta

Dearest one in the Lord,

I received your letter, and I tell you that you still do not have the obedience to leave this world. You will have the obedience in the Divine Will, when the Divine Incarnate Word, most sweet Jesus, has completed His Revelations, which, how much longer will last, we do not know.

Let me know whether during this period of your fever the revelations have continued, or have been suspended; and whether you are writing as usual, or not.

As far as your fever goes, take a hot tisane of chamomile flowers for a few nights. If you want, and if it seems appropriate to you, you may also call a doctor. For this, do as Father Calvi tells you.

For myself, I let you know that I am not in good health.

I feel my strength exhausting, and I spend some nights sleepless.

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Canon Hannibal Maria Di Francia

Messina 14-2-1927
Letter to Luisa Piccarreta

+ Necessary letter

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Know that I no longer occupy myself with almost anything of the other things of my Institutes, since I dedicated myself completely to the great Work of the Divine Will. I talk about it with people of spirit; I engage in conversation about this topic with whomever I best can; I promote it as much as I can, also in my Institutes. As soon as possible, we will establish the Pious Universal Union for the Children of the Divine Will, with the little Chaplet included, about which I wrote you the other time.
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This enterprise is great not only because of everything that I told you, but consider that it is about 25 thousand copies of the Whole Work, of all the volumes, present and future; therefore it is an enterprise of millions of lira.

Those dear young men of mine in Oria, he typographers, are working with great affection and great care; and I assure you that the edition presents itself as very beautiful, and I hope to send you a sample soon.

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Canon Hannibal Maria Di Francia

Messina, 5-5-927
Letter to Luisa Piccarreta

Fiat !

Dearest one in the Lord,

All of my troubles start from one point: great lack of breath, day and night. This lack, then, comes from the pleurisy, which affected my left lung. If it weren’t for this, I would recover in a few days. The doctors cannot cure this trouble. This is why I prayed you to ask for a miracle from Our Lord. Once you made one by resurrecting a young man who had been murdered. If Jesus wants, let Him give you the power to heal me, and I will soon come to visit you in Corato. Remember what is written in the Psalms, “God does the will of those who fear Him”. As for me, I am reduced to extremes.

The letter you sent me arrived a few hours after I had written to Jesus, and I took it as an answer. It comforted me immensely, but it was the prelude of new troubles. However, your speaking is holy, just and perfect. Only, it would be good for me (I say it in my ignorance) if you were more resolute, in a saintly way, with Our Lord. Forgive me, and I bless you as usual.
Last night I slept little and I suffered much with the breathing but maybe, the worst is to come. I abandon myself in Jesus, in whose hands one cannot perish.

Yours in Jesus C.

Servant M. Hannibal Di Francia (1)

(1) Last letter written by Fr. Hannibal Mary Di Francia, who died 26 days later on June 1, 1927.