Helena Kowalska was born in west-central Poland which was part of Germany before World War II. She worked as a housekeeper. Then she joined the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in 1925 when she was 20 years old. She received many messages from Jesus. During her lifetime some Catholics thought of Jesus as a strict judge. Jesus appeared to her with two rays coming from His heart. She said that they represented the blood and water poured out of His heart when he died on the cross. Jesus told her “I do not want to punish mankind but I desire to heal it, pressing it to my merciful heart.” Jesus told her to paint an image of Him showing His mercy. Since she did not know how to paint, she got Eugene Kazimierowski, an artist, to do it for her. She died of tuberculosis on October 5th 1938. She was beatified in 1993 and canonized in 2000. Saint Faustina is a model of faith and her life was used to bring people closer to Jesus. She taught the world, ”Jesus, I trust in You.”
Saint Faustina, pray for us!
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