St. Faustina Kowalska
Feast 10-05 · Canonized 2000
Patron of
About
Faustina was born Helena Kowalska in 1905 in a poor Polish village. At twenty she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in Warsaw, where she worked as a cook, gardener, and porter.
From 1931 she received visions of Jesus, who asked her to spread devotion to the Divine Mercy and to have an image painted with the words "Jesus, I trust in You." At the direction of her confessor she kept a diary recording these revelations, which has become one of the most widely read spiritual works of modern times.
Faustina died of tuberculosis in 1938 at the age of thirty-three and was canonized in 2000 by Pope John Paul II, who established Divine Mercy Sunday. She is a patron of those devoted to the Divine Mercy and a model of humble prayer life.
Suggested prayer
O God, who revealed the depths of Your mercy to St. Faustina and sent her to carry it to the world, grant through her intercession that we may trust You without limit and be merciful to others. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
