Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

not pa in t the image o f the Merciful Jesus, so she herself could not found a new congregation. Bu t because o f the terrible times approaching, such a congregation was needed. When, in the evening o f tha t day, I visited Sister Faustina again,... I asked her i f she could give me an answer to the question I had asked her the day before. S ister Faustina considered for a moment, and then said: "Father, you received the answer today during Mass; I do not need to say any th ing more." (Archives of S.F., Recollections). S ister F au s tina explained to F a th e r Sopocko not only the significance of the la s t revelation of Jesus , she also described exactly the place where the f irs t convent would s tand and what its beginnings would look like: "When I visited her in the last days o f her life in the hospital at Pradnik ...she told me then... that she had had a vision that I was receiving the vows o f the firs t six members o f the new congregation in a small wooden chapel. In fact, in 1944 in V ilnius on 16th November I d id receive the firs t private vows from six women who had decided to serve God in the new congregation, and in add ition to the usual three vows they made a fourth, to propagate the devotion to ihe Divine Mercy... A nd the vows were made in the wooden chapel o f the Carmelite Sisters... She also told me that she saw the firs t convent o f the congregation, a large but poor house, w ith a great spirit w ithin it and it stood beside a church... When, in 1947, I visited the house o f the new congregation (Handmaids o f Divine Mercy) in Mysliborz near Gorzow, I saw tha t everything confirmed what she had said, exactly." (Archives of S.F., Recollections). W hat he r role was to be in the erection of a new congregation, S ister F au s tin a understood only in the 248