Luisa Piccarreta

The Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta, also known as "Little Daughter of the Divine Will," is under consideration for possible canonization as a saint of the Catholic Church. She was a mystic and author notable for having allegedly "survived on nothing but Communion wafers for sixty-five years". For some time, her confessor was St. Annibale Maria di Francia. Her spirituality centered on union with the Will of God. She was born in Corato, Bari, Italy in 1865. She died at the age of 82 in 1947, and the Archbishop of Trani opened her Cause for Beatification in 1994. By the end of 2005, the process of inquiry and documentation within the Diocese of Trani-Barletta-Bisceglie-Nazareth was complete. Her cause was then passed on to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints of the Vatican, which opened its examination March 7, 2006. Piccarreta was thereby enrolled as a "Servant of God". The Congregation for the Causes of Saints appointed a Roman lawyer, Silvia Monica Correale, as the postulator of Piccarreta's Cause for Canonization.

The Archbishop of Trani has reiterated, in a letter dated November 2012, he is not opposed to the existence of groups formed to study Luisa's writings. However he also reaffirmed his moratorium on the publication, both in print and online, of the writings of Piccarreta, presenting it as his desire to present in the future, a "typical and critical edition of her writings", (for which the Archdiocese of Trani owns all of the publishing rights). In the same letter, The Archbishop criticises “poor or exaggerated explanations of her writings”, but affirms that neither the Church nor he have found doctrinal errors in her writings.