St. Faustina Kowalska

Feast 5 October

The secretary of Divine Mercy. A Polish nun who wrote what she was told, was doubted, and then had a pope who had grown up down the road write her into the calendar.

Sacred art

Statues and images

No photograph of St. Faustina Kowalska is shown. The honour goes to the person, and through the person to God. It is not a substitute for the life written below.

The whole treasury

The chaplet. The image. The hour of mercy. John Paul II, who knew what the twentieth century could do to a body, believed this was the devotion for it.

Pray with Faustina

The prayers

Signs that name Faustina

If it belongs to Faustina, it is here, with a door back into the story.

ImageChurch-approved

The Divine Mercy Image

Płock, then Vilnius1931 (vision) · 1934 (first painting)

Jesus appears to St. Faustina Kowalska and asks for an image: one hand raised in blessing, the other touching the heart, two rays — pale and red — and the signature “Jesus, I trust in You.” The devotion was once suppressed, then became a universal feast.