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Faustina, Apostle of Mercy (Polish: Miłość i miłosierdzie) is a biographical, Polish documentary film directed by Michał Kondrat. It traces the life of Faustina Kowalska who was a nun of the Merciful Jesus and Polish mystic nicknamed "the apostle of divine Mercy". [1] The film premiered to cinemas in Poland on 29 March 2019. [2]
Faustina (Polish: Faustyna) is a 1995 Polish biographical drama film about Faustina Kowalska, a Roman Catholic nun and mystic whose apparitions of Jesus Christ inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy. Directed by Jerzy Łukaszewicz, it stars Dorota Segda as the titular nun. [1]
Led by Scott Hahn, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Fr. Michael Gaitley, Cardinal Seán O'Malley, and Fr. Seraphim Michalenko, the film uncovers the depth of the message St. Faustina received from Jesus. Furthermore, Weigel articulates the message of John Paul II's Dives in Misericordia saying, "In Christ we meet the Merciful face of the Father and the ...
Divine Mercy: No Escape is a 1987 American religious biographical film edited, produced, and directed by Hermann D. Tauchert, written by Tauchert and Fr. Seraphim Michalenko, and starring Melanie Metcalf as Polish nun Maria Faustina Kowalska.
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 ...
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.
Sopoćko was very supportive of the Divine Mercy devotion of Faustina Kowalska and in her diary (Notebook V, item 1238) she stated: "This priest is a great soul, entirely filled with God." Since 1931 Kowalska had been trying (without success) to find someone to paint the Divine Mercy image until Sopoćko became her confessor in the middle of 1933.
Sopocko supported Kowalska's efforts and arranged for the first painting of the image by the artist Eugeniusz Kazimirowski, [4] [5] [10] which was the only rendition that Kowalska saw. [5] After Kowalska's death, a number of other artists painted their own versions of the image, with the depiction by Adolf Hyła being among the most reproduced ...