What is Faustyna Kowalska?
{{Infobox Saint |name=Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska |birth_date=25 August 1905 |death_date=5 October 1938 |feast_day=5 October |venerated_in=[[Roman Catholic Church]] |image=Maria Faustyna Kowalska.jpg |imagesize=200px |caption=Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska of the Most Blessed Sacrament |birth_place=[[Głogowiec]], [[Russian Empire]] |death_place=[[Kraków]], [[Poland]] |titles=Confessor |beatified_date=18 April 1993 |beatified_place= |beatified_by= |canonized_date=30 April 2000 |canonized_place= |canonized_by= |attributes= |patronage= |major_shrine=Shrine of Divine Mercy in [[Łagiewniki]], Kraków, Poland |suppressed_date= |issues= }} '''Maria Faustina Kowalska''', commonly known as '''Saint Faustina''', born Helena Kowalska (August 25, 1905, [[Głogowiec]], then in the [[Russian Empire]] – October 5, 1938, [[Kraków]], Poland) was a [[Poles|Polish]] [[nun]] and [[mysticism|mystic]]. She is now venerated in the [[Roman Catholic Church]] as a [[Canonization|saint]]. == Biography == [[File:Akt urodzenia Heleny Kowalskiej.jpg|thumb|300px|Helena Kowalska's birth certificate]] Faustina Kowalska was the third of ten children. She was born to a poor family. In 1921 after grade school, she started to work to support her family. Around this time she was considering a [[vocation]] in the [[Catholic church]]. She claimed that [[God]] himself was calling her to be a [[nun]]. Helena left for [[Warsaw]], and applied to various [[convents]] in the capital, only to be turned down each time. She was finally accepted at the convent of the [[Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy]]. She was eventually initiated as a [[nun]] on April 30, 1926, with the name Sister Maria Faustina of the [[Blessed Sacrament]]. Saint Faustina claimed she had visited [[Purgatory]]. She also said she had seen and spoken to [[Jesus]] and [[Mary (mother of Jesus)|Mary]] several times. Later on, Jesus revealed her purpose; to spread the devotion of the [[Mercy of God]]. On February 22, 1931, Jesus was said to have appeared as the 'King of Divine M