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Maria Faustyna Kowalska, OLM (born Helena Kowalska; 25 August 1905 – 5 October 1938 [1] ), also known as Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, 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 ...
Faustina was the youngest child of emperor Antoninus Pius and empress Faustina the Elder. She was held in high esteem by soldiers and her husband as Augusta and Mater Castrorum ('Mother of the Camp') and was given divine honours after her death.
Oct 5, 2023 · Here are seven important facts to know about this popular saint: 1. Her given name was Helena. St. Maria Faustina Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament was born in Poland as Helena Kowalska on Aug....
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- Her given name was Helena. St. Maria Faustina Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament was born in Poland as Helena Kowalska on Aug. 25, 1905. She died on Oct.
- She didn’t plan to become a nun. Young Helena had no intention of entering religious life, but at age 19, while attending a dance with her sister Natalia in Lodz, she had a vision of a suffering Jesus, who asked her, “How long shall I put up with you and how long will you keep putting Me off?”
- Jesus described to her how his Divine Mercy image should look. Faustina wrote that on the night of Sunday, Feb. 22, 1931, while she was in her cell in Plock, Poland, after partially recovering from tuberculosis, Jesus appeared wearing a white garment with red and pale rays emanating from his heart.
- She saw a vision of Hell. In October 1936, during an eight-day retreat, she was led by an angel to what she called the “chasms of hell,” which she described in her diary as a place of “great torture” and “fire that will penetrate the soul without destroying it — a terrible suffering.”
- Saint Faustina Kowalska was born into a large Polish Catholic family on Aug. 25, 1905. She was baptized with the name Helena.
- As a teenager, she worked as a housekeeper to help support her family. She had a simple life and demeanor, as well as a profound interior life.
- Her religious vocation was largely inspired by a vision of the Suffering Christ. At age 20, she joined the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy.
- As a religious sister, she worked as a cook, gardener, and porter.
Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, an apostle of Divine Mercy, belongs today to the group of the most popular and well-known saints of the Church. O my Jesus, each of Your saints reflects one of Your virtues; I desire to reflect Your compas-sionate heart, full of mercy; I want to glorify it.
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Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament was born as Helena Kowalska, in Glogowiec, Leczyca County, north-west of Lódz in Poland on August 25, 1905. She was the third of 10 children to a poor and religious family.
