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          Faustina Kowalska

          Nun and saint from Poland

          Saint


          Faustina Kowalska


          OLM

          Born(1905-08-25)25 August 1905
          Głogowiec, Łęczyca County, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
          Died5 October 1938(1938-10-05) (aged 33)
          Kraków, Second Polish Republic
          Venerated inCatholic Church, Palmarian Church
          Beatified18 April 1993, St.

          Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II

          Canonized30 April 2000, St. Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II
          Major shrineBasilica of Divine Mercy, Kraków, Poland
          Feast5 October (Catholic Church), First Sunday after Easter (Palmarian Church)

          Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, OLM (born Helena Kowalska; 25 August 1905 – 5 October 1938[1]) was a Polish Catholic religious sister and mystic.

          Faustyna, popularly spelled "Faustina", had apparitions of Jesus Christ which inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy, therefore she is sometimes called the "secretary