Maria Faustyna Kowalska was born as Helena Kowalska on August 25, 1905 in Głogowiec, Łęczyca County, north-west of Łódź in Poland. Her parents Stanisław Kowalski and Marianna Kowalska raised ten children - Faustina was the third. At age 20 she formally entered the convent of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in Warsaw. it was 1926.

In 1929 she spent a year in a convent in Vilnius to work as a cook. At the time, Vilnius was annexed from Lithuania by Poland. In May 1930, and was transferred to a convent in Płock, Poland, where she remained for almost two years.

On the night of Sunday, 22 February 1931, while she was in her cell, Jesus appeared to her wearing a white garment with red and pale rays emanating from his heart. In her diary she wrote that Jesus told her:

"Paint an image according to the pattern you see, with the signature: "Jesus, I trust in You." I desire that this image be venerated, first in your chapel, and then throughout the world. I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish."

This all happened even before she took her final vows which finally happened in Warsaw on May 1, 1933, with her parents present. A few days later, Sr. Faustina was transferred again to Vilnius to work as the gardener and that is where the real work of Divine Mercy began. It was in Vilnius that she met Fr. Michael Sopoćko, and where the two of them, together with artist, Professor Eugeniusz Kazimirowski came up with her Masterpiece of Mercy. In Vilnius is where she began, at Sopoćko's suggestion, writing her diary, and where she had her subsequent conversations and visions of Jesus. Saint Faustina dies at the age of 33 from acute pulmonary tuberculosis.

This special card shows an old Lithuanian painting of Saint Faustina standing in Lithuania, where she spent the majority or her mystical life. In the lower left of the painting, we can see the Gates of Dawn in Vilnius (Lithuanian: Aušros vartai, Polish: Ostra Brama, Belarusian: Вострая Брама, Russian: Острая брама), where the Original Image of Divine Mercy was first displayed publicly. In the lower right is depicted The Hill of Three Crosses (Lithuanian: Trys kryžiai, Polish: Góra Trzykrzyska), the site where seven Franciscan friars were beheaded in 1369 during the tumultuous time of Lithuania’s Christianization.

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