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The Chaplet of the Divine Mercy, also called the Divine Mercy Chaplet, is a Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy, [1] based on the Christological apparitions of Jesus reported by Faustina Kowalska (1905–1938), known as "the Apostle of Mercy".
According to Kowalska writings (Diary 476), the Chaplet of Divine Mercy prayers and structure was dictated to her directly by Jesus on 14 September 1935, as she entered a chapel in Vilnius. The day before, she had a vision of an angel of divine wrath and the Holy Trinity to show her the power of the prayers that make up the chaplet.
On 13 and 14 September 1935, while still in Vilnius, Kowalska wrote of two visions about the Chaplet of Divine Mercy in her diary (Notebook I, Items 474 to 476). [25] According to her, the chaplet prayers and structure were dictated to her directly by Jesus Christ, who granted several promises to its recitation.
In 1937, on the Sunday after Easter, later instituted as Divine Mercy Sunday by Pope John Paul II, the painting was put on display beside the main altar in St. Michael's Church in Vilnius. [26] The image, including small reproductions of it on various devotional materials, was used by Sopoćko in promoting devotion to the Divine Mercy.
Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun, reported visions and visitations from Jesus and conversations with him. He asked her to paint the vision of his merciful divinity being poured from his Sacred Heart and specifically asked for a feast of Divine Mercy to be established on the first Sunday after Easter Sunday, so that mankind would take refuge in him: [9] [10]
The Divine Mercy image.In English, "Jesús en Vos confío" means "Jesus I trust in You". After Trish Short founded the nonprofit group Artists for Life in 2000, the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy [4] located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, commissioned her to compose a Contemporary Christian song based on the Divine Mercy Chaplet in 2002.
The church was adapted for the display of the original Image of Merciful Jesus, painted according to the vision of Saint Faustina Kowalska by artist Eugeniusz Kazimirowski in 1934. The Shrine is also decorated with two sgraffiti made by Nijolė Vilutytė: the Virgin of Mercy of the Gate of Dawn and the prayer Jesus I trust in you in eleven ...
The Holy See has, at times, reversed its position on some visions. In 1931 Faustina Kowalska reported visions of a conversation with Jesus when she was a Polish nun. This resulted in the Chaplet of Divine Mercy as a prayer and later an institution which was condemned by the Holy See in 1958. However, further investigation resulted in her ...