10 Saint Faustina was a young, undereducated religious sister of the Congregation of Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in Poland. She received visions of the Lord Jesus in the 1930s that she recorded in her Diary. Jesus gave her the title “Secretary of Divine Mercy.” On April 30, 2000, St. John Paul II canonized her as the first saint of the new millennium and announced that the Second Sunday of Easter would thereafter be known as Divine Mercy Sunday. This marble statue depicts St. Faustina kneeling. The original statue is at the Cathedral of St. Stanislaus Kostka in Lodz, Poland, the site where St. Faustina prayed after seeing a vision of the suffering Jesus calling her to a religious vocation (see Diary, 9). Pilgrims may view a first-class relic of St. Faustina encased in glass above the tabernacle. 3 Statue of Saint Faustina Kowalska
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