![]() Called during a vision of the suffering Christ, on 1 August 1925 she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy and took the name Sr Mary Faustina. After finishing school, she wanted to enter the convent but her parents would not give her permission. ![]() At the age of 16 she left home and went to work as a housekeeper in Aleksandrow, Lodz and Ostrowek in order to support herself and to help her parents.Īt the age of seven she had already felt the first stirrings of a religious vocation. At the age of nine she made her First Holy Communion and attended school for three years. From a very tender age she stood out because of her love of prayer, work, obedience and her sensitivity to the poor. ![]() She was baptized with the name Helena in the parish church of Swinice Warckle. St Mary Faustina Kowalska was born on 25 August 1905 in Glogowiec, Poland, to a poor, religious family of peasants, the third of 10 children. ![]()
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