Saint maria faustina kowalska biography
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Faustyna Kowalska
Maria Faustina Kowalska, commonly known as Saint Faustina, born Helena Kowalska (August 25, 1905, Głogowiec, then in the Russian Empire – October 5, 1938, Kraków, Poland) was a Polishnun and mystic.
She is now venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as a saint.
Biography
[change | change source]Faustina Kowalska was the third of ten children. She was born to a poor family.
Saint maria faustina kowalska biography
In 1921 after grade school, she started to work to support her family. Around this time she was considering a vocation in the Catholic church. She claimed that God himself was calling her to be a nun. Helena left for Warsaw, and applied to various convents in the capital, only to be turned down each time.
She was finally accepted at the convent of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy.
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She was eventually initiated as a nun on April 30, 1926, with the name Sister Maria Faustina of the Blessed Sacrament.
Saint Faustina claimed she had visited Purgatory. She also said s