Our Social Networks Facebook Youtube Telegram Twitter Centercode Telegram-plane Comment MOTHER & REFUGE OF THE END TIMES IN THE END MY IMMACULATE HEART WILL TRIUMPH! HOME ABOUT M&R MYSTICS ON M & R Privacy Policy ARTICLES BOOKS DONATE CONTACT US PRAYER REQUESTS LIVE PRAYERS HOME ABOUT M&R MYSTICS ON M & R Privacy Policy ARTICLES BOOKS DONATE CONTACT US PRAYER REQUESTS LIVE PRAYERS WATCH ONLINE Servant Of God Luisa Piccarreta, Pray For Us! By Bella Francis Luisa Piccarreta was an Italian mystic and author known as the “Little Daughter of the Divine Will.” She was born in Corato, province of Bari, Italy on April 23, 1865, the first Sunday after Easter (later known as Divine Mercy Sunday). Her parents, Vito Nicola Piccarreta and Rosa Tarantino were practicing Catholics and Luisa was baptised in the local parish Church that same evening. She received her first Holy Communion at age nine and often remained in prayer and adoration for hours before the Most Blessed Sacrament in her parish Church of Santa Maria Greca. At age eleven she consecrated herself to the Blessed Virgin and thus became a “daughter of Mary”, and with great fervor she spread devotion to the heavenly Mother among the girls of her neighborhood. Devotion to Mary was one of the fundamental characteristics of her spirituality,  and later in life she wrote a book of meditation on Our Lady entitled “The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will”.  She received only a first grade education, and was called to serve our Lord as a victim soul at the tender age of 16. While at home at age 13, Luisa heard an uproar on the street, and she went out to the balcony to see what was happening. There a terrible vision appeared before her eyes: the street was crowded with shouting people and with armed soldiers who were leading three prisoners. Among these, Luisa recognized Jesus, carrying the cross on His shoulders. With deep sorrow and terror, Luisa contemplated this sad procession, but when the Divine Convict was under her balcony, He raised His head and said to her:  “Anima, aiutami!” (“Soul, help me!”). At this scene, Luisa cried out and immediately lost her senses. This extraordinary event marked for Luisa a decisive turning point in her life, because on that day she accepted the call to become a victim of expiation for the sins of humanity. The sufferings which she accepted upon herself lessened the pains of others, including souls in purgatory, and helped bring about conversions. In addition, Luisa’s state of victimhood provided an outlet for the Justice of the Lord, thus reducing the chastisements upon humanity. St. Annibale Di Francia,  her spiritual director wrote that the prayers, sufferings and tears of Luisa had mitigated many  divine chastisements described or foretold in her Diary. After she accepted her state of victim, Luisa was often drawn into a state of complete unconsciousness: her body would stiffen, becoming hard like stone, to the point that no one, even when joined together, was able to move her. Each morning Luisa would be found stiff and in a unmovable position. This phenomenon was misunderstood by her family and those who knew her.  However, her parents were immensely worried, who subjected her to visits by doctors, who were unable to make any diagnosis. Her family then turned in desperation to the local priests and after being blessed,  Luisa immediately regained her normal faculties, her lucid state and her state of immobility.  The humiliations and the sufferings which Luisa had to bear during this period were unspeakable. She was misunderstood by most, considered proud, false, a cheater, and a person who wanted to draw attention upon herself. Most painfully for Luisa, these accusations were also shared by her parents at times. But the most terrible humiliations she received were from some priests, who completely misjudged the frequent ecstatic state of Luisa. When they were called by her family in order to free her from her usual state of immobility, they would refuse to go; and if they did go, they would often overwhelm her with the most bitter reproaches. Once they left her in that state for as long as twenty-five days. Luisa expressed to her parents her desire to become a cloistered nun. Her parents were absolutely opposed to the idea. Luisa kept insisting, so one day her mother took her to the cloistered nuns at Trani, where they met with the Mother Superior. But her mother, not wanting her little Luisa to cloister herself in a monastery, revealed to the Mother Superior,  in detail all the defects and the strange phenomena surrounding her daughter, adding that she was a sickly girl of weak constitution. Obviously, these details provoked a definitive refusal on the part of the Superior, who immediately dismissed her, saying that life in the monastery was very hard, and that her frail health would not allow her to enter the religious life. Luisa returned to Corato with her heart full of sadness and she immediately poured out her sorrow to Jesus:  “Had You not promised me that I would become a nun?” And the Lord answered:You will be a nun, but the true little nun of my Heart. You will remain cloistered in a room, without ever moving, in which you will pray, suffer, and be always with Me.” And so, it happened as Jesus promised. Luisa remained in her room nailed to her bed of suffering for almost seventy years. During her early years, Luisa experienced her first visions (Luisa calls them dreams) of the evil spirit, who terrorized her frequently, making her very frightened. She tried to conquer her fears by hiding behind her bed, or seeking refuge in the arms of her mother, in which she felt safe. She soon learned to turn to God in prayer, and beseeched the Blessed Virgin Mary for protection. Our Blessed Mother soon responded to the prayers of little Luisa. One day, being once again assailed and terrorized by the evil spirit, Luisa turned to…