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Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, OLM (born Helena Kowalska; 25 August 1905 – 5 October 1938 [1]) was a Polish Catholic religious sister and mystic. Faustyna, popularly spelled " Faustina ", had apparitions of Jesus Christ which inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy , therefore she is sometimes called the ...
Kowalska was a Polish nun who joined the convent of Our Lady of Mercy, in Warsaw, in 1925. [3] [4] In her diary, which was later published as the book Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul, Kowalska wrote about a number of visions of Jesus and conversations with him. [3] Her confessor was Michael Sopocko, a priest and a professor of theology. [3] [4]
The Divine Mercy is a Catholic devotion to the mercy of God associated with the reported apparitions of Jesus to Faustina Kowalska. [1]The Divine Mercy devotion is composed of several practices such as the Divine Mercy Sunday, the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy or the Divine Mercy image, which Kowalska describes in her diary as "God's loving mercy" towards all people, especially for sinners.
Kowalska wrote about the revelations of Jesus regarding the chaplet in her diary (Diary 474-476) during her stay in Vilnius on 13 and 14 September 1935. [8] [9] Kowalska recounted a vision in which she saw an angel of divine wrath sent to punish the earth for its sins. In response, Kowalska began praying for the angel to delay its punishment ...
Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, OLM (born Helena Kowalska; 25 August 1905 – 5 October 1938) was a Polish Catholic religious sister and mystic.Faustyna, popularly spelled "Faustina", had apparitions of Jesus Christ which inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy, therefore she is sometimes called the "secretary" of Divine Mercy.
The first Mass during which the Divine Mercy image was displayed was on April 28, 1935 (the Feast of Divine Mercy), the second Sunday of Easter, and was attended by Kowalska. (Diary of St. Faustina, item 420). [14] April 28, 1935 was also the celebration of the end of the Jubilee of the Redemption by Pope Pius XI.
In her diary, Divine Mercy In My Soul, Saint Faustina Kowalska relates her own experience of a miracle of roses. During her novitiate, she was assigned kitchen duties and found it difficult to drain the water from the pot filled with potatoes due to her increasing weakness.
The apparitions of the Divine Mercy to Saint Faustina Kowalska were approved by Pope John Paul II. Today, therefore, in this Shine, I wish solemnly to entrust the world to Divine Mercy. I do so with the burning desire that the message of God’s merciful love, proclaimed here through Saint Faustina, may be made known to all the peoples of the ...