I remember that during the war, when I was a factory worker at “Solvay”, a place that is related to Łagiewniki, I often went to the tomb of sister Faustina when she was not yet declared blessed. Everything was bizarre, unpredictable when you realize that she was a simple girl. Could I imagine, at that time, that I would be announcing her beatification, at first, and then canonize her? She joined a monastery in Warsaw. It was she, a few years before the war, who had this great vision of Jesus the merciful who called her to become an apostle of God’s mercy which was then so widely distributed in the Church. Sister Faustina died in 1938. Hence, from Krakow, the cult of Divine Mercy has entered into a great string of events of world dimensions. When I became Archbishop, I asked Fr. Prof. Ignacy Różycki to study her writings. At first, he didn’t want to. Then, he studied the documents in depth. Finally, he said, “She is a wonderful mystic.”
John Paul II: “Get up, let’s go!”
St. Stanislaus BM Publishing House, Krakow 2004
