Shrine of Divine Mercy, Łagiewniki
St. Faustina’s convent, the image of Mercy, the tomb of the apostle of Mercy, and the city of the pope who put her on the universal calendar. Kraków is where the twentieth century’s wounds and the chaplet meet.
KrakówFeast Divine Mercy Sunday (the Sunday after Easter)
The pilgrimage
To pray the chaplet at the hour of mercy, in the place the diary describes.
To walk from Łagiewniki to the John Paul II shrine nearby — two saints, one city, one message: Jesus, I trust in you.
Kraków itself: the cathedral where Karol Wojtyła was bishop, the old town, the martyrs of the war.
The apparition, the Gospel sign, the body, the image — whatever this place is known for, told as a file of its own.
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.
Costa Rica / Italy2011 and 2013 (recognized healings)
A pope who died in public is raised to the altars on the back of two classical medical miracles: Floribeth Mora Díaz’s otherwise hopeless brain aneurysm, and a French nun’s Parkinson’s disease — the illness that had been his own.
CzęstochowaAt Jasna Góra from 1382; tradition much older
A darkened icon of Mother and Child, slashed on the cheek, which Poland credits with the defense of the monastery in 1655 and with the nation’s soul. Not “not made by hands,” but treated as a wonder-working presence.
