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	Faustyna Kowalska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Faustina, born Helena Kowalska (August 25, 1905, Głogowiec, Poland – October 5, 1938, Kraków, Poland) was a Polish nun and mystic, now venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as a saint.
		Faustina gave him some soup and bread, and after eating it, Jesus revealed Himself to her, and told her that He had come down from His heavenly throne to "taste the fruits of her mercy." Her spiritual director, Father Sopocko, assisted her in having the Divine Mercy image painted.
		Faustina had never been able to found the religious order which Jesus had asked for, but she had left clear rules for the life of the prospective community, and at last in 1941, the order, now known as the Institute of Divine Mercy, was founded.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Faustyna_Kowalska (1954 words)

	Faustyna Kowalska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Faustina’s obedience was put to the test many times.
		The Divine Mercy was not permited because of spelling erors in Faustina's diary.
		Faustina was beatified on April 18, 1993 and canonized on April 30, 2000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Faustina (1954 words)

	Marians: Saint Faustina
		Faustina (1905-1938) was a member of the Congregation of Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in Poland.
		Seraphim Michalenko, MIC (a priest of the Congregation of Marians of the Immaculate Conception), traveled to St. Faustina's tomb at the Shrine of The Divine Mercy outside of Krakow, Poland.
		Faustina was beatified by Pope John Paul II at the Vatican on April 18, 1993.
	www.marian.org /divinemercy/faustina/miracles.html (1414 words)

	Marians: Saint Faustina
		Helena Kowalska was born in the village of Glogowiec west of
		In the 1930s, Saint Faustina received from the Lord a message of mercy that she was told to spread throughout the world.
		Saint Faustina's spiritual life was based on deep humility, purity of intention, and loving obedience to the will of God in imitation of the virtues of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
	www.marian.org /divinemercy/faustina (563 words)

	Divine Mercy & St. Faustina
		Faustina to pen for the world, along with her life and conversations she had with Jesus.
		Born Helena Kowalska (1905) in Poland, Faustina entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy when she was nearly twenty.
		In the 1930s, Sister Faustina received a message of mercy from the Lord that she was told to spread throughout the world.
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	Biography of St. Faustina (Catholic Youth Networking)
		Helena Kowalska was born on August 25, 1905 in Glogowiec, Poland, the third of the ten Kowalski children.
		St. Faustina gave him some soup and bread, and after eating it, Jesus revealed Himself to her, and told her that He had come down from His heavenly throne to "taste the fruits of her mercy." Her spiritual director, Father Sopocko, assisted her in having the Divine Mercy image painted.
		Her superiors did not always agree with what Jesus asked her to do; once, when Faustina went to Mother Jane to ask for permission to make a certain sacrifice which Jesus had requested, the Mother scolded her and told her she was not allowed to make the sacrifice.
	www.catholicyouth.freeservers.com /mercy/faustina.htm (1792 words)

	Mary Faustina Kowalska
		Sister Faustina was a faithful daughter of the Church which she loved like a Mother and a Mystic Body of Jesus Christ.
		Faustina — know that your task is to write down everything that I make known to you about My mercy, for the benefit of those who by reading these things will be comforted in their souls and will have the courage to approach Me (Diary 1693).
		Sister Mary Faustina, consumed by tuberculosis and by innumerable sufferings which she accepted as a voluntary sacrifice for sinners, died in Krakow at the age of just thirty three on October 5, 1938 with a reputation for spiritual maturity and a mystical union with God.
	www.vatican.va /news_services/liturgy/documents/ns_lit_doc_20000430_faustina_en.html (1275 words)

	Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome
		Faustina Kowalska was born in the rural village of Glogowiec on Aug. 25, 1905.
		Her spiritual legacy to the Church is devotion to the Divine Mercy, inspired by a vision in which Jesus himself asked that a portrait be painted of him with the inscription "Jesus I trust in you," which she commissioned to a painter in 1935.
		Sister Faustina's diary, entitled "Divine Mercy in My Soul," revealed how Our Lord entrusted her with the mission to proclaim to the world once again, the evangelical message of his mercy and to establish new ways of devotion to God in his attribute of Mercy for all, especially those in greatest need.
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	Marian Fathers: Saint Faustina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Divine Mercy and the Diary of St. Faustina Christ's message in His revelations to St. Faustina was that this is a time for mercy.
		During his visit to Faustina's tomb on June 7, 1997, he even stated that Divine Mercy has "formed the image of his pontificate." Mere months before being named pope, Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Krakow, Poland, after years of exhaustive work, succeeded in having the ban on Faustina's writings lifted.
		St. Faustina was beatified by Pope John Paul II at the Vatican on April 18, 1993.
	www.marians-uk.org /d_faustina.html (1120 words)

	Priest's healed heart opens door to sainthood for nun
		Kowalska’s canonization is a major event for members of his church, built in 1927 by Polish immigrants.
		Unlike all other female saints who adopted Poland as home, Kowalska will be the first one born in Poland, said the Rev. Seraphim Michalenko, of the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Mass., where 30,000 pilgrims come annually to pray to her.
		Faustina Kowalska already was credited with the 1981 cure of a Massachusetts woman.
	www.rgj.com /cgi-bin/printstory.cgi?publish_date=20000426&story=956705176 (780 words)

	Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : October 05, 2005 : Faustina Kowalska (RM)
		Newly canonized in 2000, some areas celebrate the Optional Memorial of St. Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun who was chosen by Jesus to remind the world of the mystery of God's merciful love, the devotion to Divine Mercy.
		This Placid was erroneously identified with the disciple of St. Benedict; thus arose the legend that the monk Placid, his sister, and thirty monks suffered martyrdom in the port of Messina at the hands of pirates.
		Jesus said to Faustina, "Today I am sending you with my mercy to the people of the whole world." It is his desire to heal the aching world, to draw all people into his merciful heart of love.
	www.catholicculture.org /lit/calendar/day.cfm?date=2005-10-05 (1623 words)

	Diary of Sister M. Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul by Marian Press
		Sister Faustina was a Polish nun who died in 1938 and was recently cannonized as a saint by the Catholic Church.
		The book is a compilation of thoughts on her of her life, the messages that she believed that she received from Jesus, and her struggle to institute the Divine Mercy devotion in the church.
		Faustina was given many directiosnf ro apryers, whcih are inlcuded in the book.
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	Saint Faustina Kowalska
		Saint Faustina was born Helena Kowalska in the village of Glogowiec near Lodz, Poland, one of ten children.
		Sister Faustina died of TB in 1938 on the eve of World War II, whose atrocities she had foretold to her sisters.
		On March 10, 2000, in the Consistory Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, an ordinary public consistory for several causes of canonization was held, in the presence of the Holy Father.
	www.rc.net /australia/divinemercy/stfaustina.htm (524 words)

	"Faustina Kowalska is a Gift of the Land of Poland to the Whole Church"
		“With Faustina Kowalska, the great message of Divine Mercy penetrates the sufferings of the 20th century to reach the Christians of the new millennium,” John Paul II said this morning, when opening the solemn ceremony for the canonization of the Polish nun, in the presence of some 200,000 pilgrims.
		VATICAN CITY, APR 30 (ZENIT.org) - Faustina is the first saint of the Jubilee, although her history is totally connected to the century that we are leaving behind, noted for the immense sufferings caused by two Word Wars.
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	www.catholiceducation.org /articles/religion/re0279.html (579 words)

	Divine Mercy - Canonization of Sister Faustina - Saint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The process culminating in the canonization of Sister Faustina Kowalska, commenced twenty seven years after her death in Krakow Poland, in 1938.
		On April 18, 1993 the Feast of Divine Mercy Sunday (the first Sunday after Easter), Pope John Paul II elevated Sister Faustina to the status of Blessed during the Beatification of this Venerable Servant of God, a day when St. Peter's Square was packed with enthusiastic Divine Mercy devotees.
		On March 10, 2000 at 11:30 a.m., during the celebration of sext, in the Consistory Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, an ordinary public consistory for several causes of canonization was held, in the presence of the Holy Father.
	www.theworkofgod.org /Devotns/DivMercy/MrcySnt.htm (267 words)

	Amazon.com: The Diary of Saint Maria Faustina: Divine Mercy in My Soul: Books: Faustina Kowalska,Congregation of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Faustina was a humble and devout young woman when she began to encounter Jesus.
		Unfortunately, that progress towards a climax is St. Faustina's recollection of the progress of the disease in her body which caused her death.
		Faustina also chronicles her sufferings at the hands of the other sisters in the convent.
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	APOSTLE OF DIVINE MERCY (apr22div.htm)
		aint Faustina Kowalska was born on August 25, 1905 in the village of Glogowiec, west of the city of Lodz in Poland.
		The canonization of Sister Faustina is of particular interest to thousands of Catholics in North and South America, as well as Europe, Asia, Australia and all who have become involved in greater devotion to Christ as Merciful Savior and the Church's traditional Works of Mercy, through reading Sister Faustina's Diary.
		In her Diary, Blessed Faustina had predicted a number of the events that have happened including the ban on the Devotion, the lifting of the ban, and her own eventual beatification in Rome on the first Sunday after Easter, which Jesus had told her He wanted celebrated as the Feast of Divine Mercy.
	www.dailycatholic.org /issue/2001Apr/apr22div.htm (2766 words)

	St. Louis Review Online
		Christ’s message of mercy was delivered through St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun who kept a diary in the early 1900s of His private revelations to her during her lifetime.
		Father Ignacy Rozycki, a theologian who examined St. Faustina’s writings for the Vatican, has said that the feast of Divine Mercy should be considered something even greater than a plenary indulgence.
		Faustina, who has been called the secretary and apostle of Divine Mercy, did not live long; she died of tuberculosis in 1938 at age 33.
	www.stlouisreview.com /article.php?id=8075 (1509 words)

	St. Faustina
		On October 5, 1938, a young religious by the name Sister Faustina (Helen Kowalska) died in a convent of the Congregation of Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in Cracow, Poland.
		She came from a very poor family that had struggled hard on their little farm during the terrible years of WWI.
		Diary, Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, Divine Mercy in My Soul (c) 1987 Congregation of Marians of the Immaculate Conception, Stockbridge, MA 01263.
	www.ewtn.com /Devotionals/mercy/stfaust.htm (323 words)

	St. Faustina Kowalska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Helena Kowalska was born in Glogowiec, Poland, in 1905.
		To St. Faustina, we owe the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy.
		Saint Faustina's congregation, the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy operate the Shrine of The Divine Mercy in Lagiewniki, Poland.
	www.smart.net /~tak/Patrons/faustina.html (249 words)

	Saint MARY FAUSTINA KOWALSKA
		Faustina was born on August 25, 1905 in Glogowiec in Poland of a poor and religious family of peasants, the third of ten children.
		From that heart Sr Faustina Kowalska, the blessed whom from now on we will call a saint, will see two rays of light shining from that heart and illuminating the world: "The two rays", Jesus himself explained to her one day, "represent blood and water" (Diary, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, p.
		And you, Faustina, a gift of God to our time, a gift from the land of Poland to the whole Church, obtain for us an awareness of the depth of divine mercy; help us to have a living experience of it and to bear witness to it among our brothers and sisters.
	www.wf-f.org /StMFaustina.html (2484 words)

	St. Faustina Kowalska ~ Saints, Saints A-Z, Patrons Saints A-Z, Patron Saint Index, Saint Index . . .
		After being rejected by several religious orders, she became a nun in the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in Warsaw, Poland on 1 August 1925; the order is devoted to care and education of troubled young women.
		In the 1930's, Sister Faustina received a message of mercy from Jesus that she was told to spread throughout the world, a message of God's mercy to each person individually, and for humanity as a whole.
		Jesus asked that a picture be painted of him with the inscription: "Jesus, I Trust in You." She was asked to be a model of mercy to others, to live her entire life, in imitation of Christ's, as a sacrifice.
	www.drstandley.com /saints_stfaustinakowalska.shtml (621 words)

	Pope John Paul II: Divine Mercy Expresses the Jubilee Spirit - Holy Father's remarks before imparting the final ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		At the close of this celebration, in which our Easter joy is combined with that of Sr Faustina Kowalska's canonization, I affectionately greet and thank all of you who have come from various parts of the world.
		The message of Divine Mercy and the image of the merciful Christ of which Sr Faustina Kowalska speaks to us today are a vivid expression of the spirit of the Great Jubilee which the whole Church is celebrating with joy and fruitfulness.
		In the new millennium may the message of the merciful love of God, who bends over all human poverty, be an endless source of hope for everyone and a call to show active love to one's brothers and sisters.
	www.catholic-forum.com /SAINTS/pope0264bj.htm (498 words)

	John Paul II and the Feast of Divine Mercy
		Blessed Faustina Kowalska was born Helena Kowalska in 1905 to a peasant family in Glogowiec, Poland.
		According to Sister Faustina’s diaries, on the evening of February 22, 1931, while she prayed alone in her cell, Jesus appeared to her as the King of Mercy.
		With trepidation Sister Faustina shared the story of her vision with her superiors and the other sisters, unsure of whether this initial vision—and the many that followed—was real or illusion.
	www.americancatholic.org /Features/JohnPaulII/DivineMercy.asp (3157 words)

	St. Faustina Kowalska
		St. Faustina is known as the Apostle of Divine Mercy.
		Helen Kowalska was born on August 25, 1905, in the Polish village of Glogowiec, the third of ten children.
		After enduring intense physical sufferings, some caused by natural sources, others by supernatural ones, such as experiencing the pains of our Lord's passion, Sister Faustina died at the age of thirty-three on October 5, 1938 in the convent of her congregation at Lagienwniki in Cracow, Poland.
	www.downloadfreechristianmusic.com /saints/StFaustinaKowalska.html (513 words)

	Saints - Maria Faustina Kowalska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		During her time at the convent, Sister Mary Faustina was blessed with many graces, including visions, revelations, wounds of the stigmata (hidden from all but her), sharing in the Passion of the Lord, bilocation, the ability to read of human souls, prophecy, and mystical engagement and marriage.
		Sister Mary Faustina died on 5 October 1938 of tuberculosis at a convent in Krakow, Poland.
		On 30 April 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized Maria Faustina Kowalska, Virgin, of the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy.
	www.scborromeo.org /saints/faustina.htm (447 words)

	The Divine Mercy Message from the Marians of the Immaculate Conception
		Sister Faustina was a young, uneducated, nun in a convent of the Congregation of Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in Cracow, Poland during the 1930's.
		Faustina to record these experiences, which she compiled in notebooks.
		Faustina in 2000 making her the "first saint of the third millennium." Speaking of Sr.
	www.thedivinemercy.org /message/stfaustina (356 words)

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