St. Hannibal of Francia, Luisa Piccarreta's extraordinary confessor, praised her method of contemplation as a "totally new approach" and emphasized that she was the first to introduce this unique way of meditating on the Lord’s Passion. He described Luisa as a pure virgin, completely dedicated to God and a recipient of Jesus’ singular love. According to St. Hannibal, Jesus chose Luisa, who was uneducated and referred to as the “littlest one on earth,” to carry out a divine mission that surpasses all others: the triumph of the Divine Will on earth, as expressed in the phrase from the Lord’s Prayer, “Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.” The first Italian editions of her work received ecclesiastical approval, with the Revisione arcivescovile dated February 20, 1915, in Naples.