Saint faustina kowalska biography template
•
Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska
Maria Faustyna Kowalska, recognized in the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Faustina (born Helena Kowalska, 25 August in Głogowiec – 5 October in Kraków, Poland[3]), was a Polish nun.
Throughout her life, Faustina reported having visions of Jesus and conversations with him, which she wrote about in her diary, later published as the book The Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul. Her Vatican biography quotes some of these reputed conversations regarding the Divine Mercy devotion.[4]
At age 20 she joined a convent in Warsaw and was later transferred to Plock and then to Vilnius where she met her confessor, Father Michael Sopocko, who supported her devotion to the Divine Mercy. Faustina and Sopocko directed an artist to paint the first Divine Mercy image, based on Faustina's reported vision of Jesus. Sopocko used the image to celebrate the first Mass on the first Sunday after
•
Faustina Kowalska
Nun and saint from Poland
Saint Faustina Kowalska OLM | |
|---|---|
| Born | ()25 August Głogowiec, Łęczyca County, Congress Poland, Russian Empire |
| Died | 5 October () (aged&#;33) Kraków, Second Polish Republic |
| Venerated&#;in | Catholic Church, Palmarian Church |
| Beatified | 18 April , St. Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II |
| Canonized | 30 April , St. Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II |
| Major shrine | Basilica of gudomlig Mercy, Kraków, Poland |
| Feast | 5 October (Catholic Church), First Sunday after Easter (Palmarian Church) |
Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, OLM (born Helena Kowalska; 25 August &#;– 5 October [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 "secretary" of Divine Mercy.[2]
Throughout her life,
•
MARY FAUSTINA KOWALSKA
Sister Mary Faustina, an apostle of the Divine Mercy, belongs today to the group of the most popular and well-known saints of the Church. Through her the Lord Jesus communicates to the world the great message of God's mercy and reveals the pattern of Christian perfection based on trust in God and on the attitude of mercy toward one's neighbors.
She was born on August 25, in G»ogowiec in Poland of a poor and religious family of peasants, the third of ten children. She was baptized with the name Helena in the parish Church of Ðwinice Warckie. From a very tender age she stood out because of her love of prayer, work, obedience, and also her sensitivity to the poor. At the age of nine she made her first Holy Communion living this moment very profoundly in her awareness of the presence of the Divine Guest within her soul. She attended school for three years. At the age of sixteen she left home and went to work as a housekeeper in Aleksan