Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

certainty be walking around; whereas you, Sister, must stay in bed!!"" (Diary, Notebook V, para . 1555). I t is also no t known why and when S is te r F au s tin a was tran s fe rred from tre a tm e n t by the pulmonary specialist to th e care of the convent v isiting physician. The sick young woman’s hea lth dram atically worsened, and new a ttack s of pa in accompanied by high fever arrived, which, as S is te r F au s t in a writes, 'are so violent and severe that they cause me to lose consciouness. "When they cause me to fa in t , and I am drenched in cold sweat, then they gradually begin to go away. Sometimes they last three hours or more." (Diary, Notebook VI, para . 1633). ‘dhe help o f the convent's doctor was then insufficient, so the superiors decided to approach another doctor, and he ascertained that my condition was serious and said to me, "It w i l l not be possible to return you to good health. ‘We can remedy your condition partially, bu t complete recovery is out o f the question." die prescribed a medicine fo r the pains, and after I had taken it, the major attacks d id not return... T "he doctor very much wanted me to go there fo r a treatment." (Diary, Notebook VI, para . 1634). As we read h e r Diary with some emotion, sympathy and a growing sense of adm iration , we can observe the struggle of S is ter F au s tin a with a new, acute phase of th e disease. For Holy Week and th e Feas t of E as ter, as she had hoped, she remained in th e convent. But directly afterwards, on 27th April 1938 she was sen t to P radn ik for th e second time, in a very serious condi­ tion. In hospital a t f irs t she lay on th e veranda , and 291