RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Faustina Kowalska

1905 - 1938

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Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, OLM (born Helena Kowalska; 25 August 1905 – 5 October 1938) 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" of Divine Mercy. Throughout her life, Kowalska reported having visions of Jesus and conversations with him, which she noted in her diary, later published as The Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul. Her biography, submitted to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, quoted some of the conversations with Jesus regarding the Divine Mercy devotion. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Faustina Kowalska is the 411th most popular religious figure (down from 392nd in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Poland (up from 66th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Religious Figure.

Faustina Kowalska was a Polish nun and mystic who claimed to have seen a vision of Jesus Christ. She was canonized by the Catholic Church in 2000.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Faustina Kowalska ranks 411 out of 3,187. Before her are Saint Monica, Pope John VII, Saint Sava, Pope Sergius II, Pope Anastasius III, and Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr. After her are Dionysius Exiguus, Antipope John XXIII, Gregory of Nyssa, Pope Stephen IX, Pope Callixtus I, and Pope Hyginus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Faustina Kowalska ranks 15. Before her are Elias Canetti, Christian Dior, Henry Fonda, Greta Garbo, Carl David Anderson, and Fred Trump. After her are Mikhail Sholokhov, Emilio Segrè, Astrid of Sweden, Felix Bloch, Marcel Lefebvre, and Vasily Grossman. Among people deceased in 1938, Faustina Kowalska ranks 11. Before her are Charles Édouard Guillaume, Karel Čapek, Konstantin Stanislavski, Marie of Romania, Georges Méliès, and Mary Mallon. After her are Nikolai Bukharin, Kanō Jigorō, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Béla Kun, Gabriele D'Annunzio, and Karl Kautsky.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Faustina Kowalska ranks 49 out of 1,694. Before her are Rudolf Virchow (1821), Bronisław Malinowski (1884), Klaus Kinski (1926), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), Casimir III the Great (1310), and Kurt Alder (1902). After her are Paul Ehrlich (1854), Kurt Lewin (1890), Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916), Emanuel Lasker (1868), Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (1895), and Donald Tusk (1957).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Poland

Among religious figures born in Poland, Faustina Kowalska ranks 2. Before her are Pope John Paul II (1920). After her are Maximilian Kolbe (1894), Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906), Saint Casimir (1458), Angelus Silesius (1624), Stanislaus of Szczepanów (1030), Stanisław Dziwisz (1939), Stefan Wyszyński (1901), Stanislaus Kostka (1550), Itzhak Stern (1901), and Stanisław Ryłko (1945).

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