Blessed Annibale Maria Di FranciaFounder of the Rogationist Fathers

SAINT hannibal Mary Di Francia
Ecclesiatical Censor of the Writings of Luisa Piccarreta,
Founder of the Rogationist Fathers, the Daughters of Divine Zeal,
and the Anthonian Orphanages

Saint Hannibal Mary Di Francia
1851-1927
Beatified 7 Oct. 1990
Canonized 16 May 2004
Luisa Piccarreta's Extraordinary Confessor
for over 17 years who gave the Nihil Obstat
to the first 19 Volumes of Luisa's Writings.

An exerpt from the conclusion of one of Luisa's Volumes containing the original handwritten Nihil Obstat of the Ecclesiastical Censor,
Saint Hannibal Mary Di Francia

Rogate Ergo Dominum Messis Ut Mittat Operarios In Messem Suam...
Pray, therefore, the Lord of the Harvest that He may send Workers into His Harvest...
(Mt. 9:38)

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A Biography of Saint
Hannibal Mary Di Francia

Luisa Piccarreta & Saint Hannibal Mary Di Francia
by Fr. John Bruno, R.C.J.
Rogationist Fathers

A Life More Celestial Than Terrestial
in the words of Saint Hannibal Mary Di Francia

The Chaplet of the Divine Will
by Saint Hannibal Mary Di Francia

Prayer of Saint Hannibal Mary Di Francia
to IMMACULATE MARY

For more information about Saint Hannibal Mary Di Francia, the Rogationist Fathers and the Daughters of the Divine Zeal, reference:

http://www.rcj.org

Points of Contact

The titlepage of the 1st edition of "The Hours of the Passion" written by Luisa which Saint Hannibal Mary Di Francia
was responsible for publishing in 1915.

"His Excellency Msgr. Archbishop of Trani, to whom you belong, gave me jurisdiction over you as far as your writings and their publication - that is, to deal with you and to dispose the publication, as I believe is right (his words). These faculties embrace all that you have written until now, and all that you will write in the future...
Therefore, in the sight of the Divine Will which manifests Itself here, and which many times has equally manifested Itself, I, in the Most Holy Name of Jesus and with the Authority which has been conferred to me by your legitimate Ecclesiastical Superior, give you absolute and strong obedience to write precisely, day after day, night after night, time after time, everything that happens between you and Jesus! - may they be even the most intimate things!...

An excerpt from a letter of
Saint Hannibal Maria Di Francia
to Luisa Piccarreta
Messina June 6, 1924

These are writings that must now be made known to the world. I believe they will produce great good. For as sublime as is this science of the Divine Will, so do these writings of divine dictation, present it, clearly and limpidly. In my opinion, no human intellect would have been able to form them.
Yours in J.C.

Canonico A.M. Di Francia

An excerpt from the writings of
Luisa Piccarreta
June 1, 1927 Vol. 22

I was feeling afflicted, not only because of the privation of my sweet Jesus, but also because I had received the unexpected news of the death of Rev. Father Di Francia. He was the only one left to whom I could open my poor soul. How well he understood me – he was a Saint to whom I entrusted myself, and who had so well understood all the value of what Jesus had told me on the Divine Will. He was so interested in it that, with insistence, he had taken all the writings with him in order to publish them.