Case file · Apparition / miracle
Faustina Kowalska's Divine Mercy vision
On 22 February 1931 Sister Faustina Kowalska, in her convent cell in Płock, reported seeing Jesus in a white robe with red and pale rays coming from his heart, and being told to have the image painted.
1931 CE · 52.55, 19.69 · status: account
The account
The first painting was made in Vilnius in 1934 by Eugeniusz Kazimirowski under her direction. Her diary of visions was briefly placed under Church restrictions in 1959, then rehabilitated; Pope John Paul II canonised her in 2000 and set Divine Mercy Sunday for the whole Church.
The sceptical view
The visions are recorded only in her own diary; their acceptance is a matter of faith.