

Diary of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska:
Divine Mercy in My Soul
Documentary Series
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(Diary, Introduction)
Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, known today the world over as the "Apostle of The Divine Mercy," is numbered by theologians among the outstanding mystics of the Church.
She was the third of ten children born into a poor and pious peasant family in Glogowiec, a village in the heart of Poland.
At her baptism in the nearby Parish Church of Swinice Warckie she was given the name "Helena."
From childhood she distinguished herself by her piety, love of prayer, industriousness and obedience as well as by her great sensitivity to human misery.
She had hardly three years of schooling, and at the age of fourteen she left the family hearth to help her parents and to earn her own livelihood serving as a domestic in the nearby cities of Aleksandrow and Lodz.
When she was only seven (two years before her First Holy Communion), Helen already sensed in her soul the call to embrace the religious life.
