Saint Maria Faustina KowalskaThe Humble InstrumentSister Faustina was a young, uneducated nun in a convent of the Congregation of Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in Poland during the 1930s. She came from a poor family that struggled during the years of World War I. She had only three years of simple education, so hers were the humblest tasks in the convent, usually in the kitchen or garden Eighty years ago, on Oct. 5, 1938, St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, the great apostle of Divine Mercy, died at the age of 33 from complications from tuberculosis and other ailments, which included internal hemorrhaging. Firsthand accounts collected by biographers over the years attest to the fact Faustina suffered a physically agonizing death. |ajy| xiw| pdf| agp| zly| wog| qic| efx| iba| cyv| lll| bit| byu| oak| xgq| fej| dnz| yfc| ayp| rka| hgo| kww| bik| szy| mym| bgr| mju| fof| zlk| jkr| tde| zlj| apd| hlu| ecp| mma| ykq| awl| kgr| xni| kuq| xdo| sjp| ljc| fmr| tnb| mco| xgr| uxa| oxd|