Luisa Piccarreta, TOSD, also known as the "Little Daughter of the Divine Will"[citation needed], (23 April 1865–4 March 1947), was a Catholic mystic and member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic.

In February of that year, Annibale Maria di Francia, who had been appointed as the Ecclesiastical Censure for all her writings, asked her to begin a diary of her spiritual experiences.

Also, Luisa included along with the manuscript and letter some additional notes in which she listed the effects and promises that Jesus makes to whoever meditates on these hours of his passion.

[3] In 1926, di Francia was in Trani to open branches of his newly established institutes; he asked Piccareta to write her autobiography.

[8] "This creature, Luisa, who was visited by suffering – because indeed in her life of a confirmed Christian the Lord asked of her something exceptional, something special – said 'yes' to Christ; and Christ identified her completely with the one plan of the Father ..." ("Luisa la Santa" Archbishop Giovanni Battista Pichierri, May 2000)[9] In 2007, the investigation turned to examining Piccarreta's writings, "... to clarify difficulties of a theological nature".

[11] In a letter dated 1 November 2012, Archbishop Giovan Battista Pichierri pointed out that until such time as the review was finished, it would have been premature to render any opinion as to whether or not Piccarreta's writings conformed to Catholic teaching.