It was left with me, to be opened after his death, by Signor Piero Maironi, who was well known to you before his disappearance from the world.

I know not if he be still alive or if he no longer be among the living, and I have no means of ascertaining.

I believe the packet contains an account of a vision of a supernatural nature which visited Maironi when he returned to God out of the fire of a sinful passion.

I hoped at that time that the Almighty had chosen him as the instrument of some special work of His own.

I hoped that the holiness of the work would be confirmed, after Maironi's death, by the perusal of this document, which might come to be looked upon in the light of a prophecy.