Another Famous Virgo Saint

This topic was created in the Virgo forum by firebunny on Wednesday, November 27, 2013 and has 1 replies.

Signed Up: Dec 21, 2011
Comments: 99 · Posts: 16295 · Topics: 1686

Saint Faustina, the "Apostle of Divine Mercy," was born AUGUST 25, 1905.
She is considered to have been a mystic and visionary and is known and venerated as the Apostle of Divine Mercy.
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[citation needed].
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 Easter - which later became known as Divine Mercy Sunday.
Faustina was canonized on 30 April 2000.[1][2]

Another Famous Virgo Saint

Related Topics