However, impelled by the vision of the Suffering Christ, in July 1924 she left for Warsaw to find a place. From the age of seven, she had felt the calling for religious vocation, but her parents would not give her permission to enter the convent. She attended elementary school for merely three years and then she went to work as a housekeeper in various well–to–do families in Aleksandrów and Łódź.
At the age of nine, she made her first Holy Communion. Two days later she was baptized with the name Helena in the parish church of Świnice Warckie. Sister Faustina was born on 25 August 1905 in Głogowiec, Poland to Marianna and Stanisław Kowalski as the third of ten children. Sister Faustina is one of the Church’s most popular and widely known saints and the greatest mystics in the history of the Church. Faustyna (Faustina), of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy. Faustyna (Faustina)Īpostle of Divine Mercy, Prophet of Our Times, Great Mystic, Mistress of Spiritual Life – these are the epithets usually appended to the name of Sister Faustyna Kowalska, St. Saint Faustina is 'a gift from God for our times', great mystic, mistress of spiritual life, prophet, who reminded the biblical truth about merciful love of God for every human being and calls to proclaim it to the world through the testimony of life, deed, word and prayer.
