On 30–31 August this year, from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., at the Shrine of Divine Mercy in Kraków-Łagiewniki, visitors will be able to see the manuscript of the famous “Diary” of the Apostle of Divine Mercy and the silver ring from her perpetual vows to Jesus. The “Diary”, considered one of the pearls of mystical literature, has been translated into dozens of languages and distributed worldwide in millions of copies. Saint John Paul II called it the “Gospel of Mercy”, while Archbishop of Hong Kong John Tong Hon, in the foreword to the Chinese edition, wrote that “it is truly the most wonderful gift of God offered to the world, …a spiritual treasure for the entire Church.” The exhibition is organized to mark the 100th anniversary of her entry into the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy. The handwritten “Diary” consists of six notebooks of various sizes, densely written on both sides (a total of 477 pages), as well as a notebook entitled “My Preparation for Holy Communion.” The manuscript contains no corrections or deletions, even when the Author omitted a letter or wrote a word incorrectly. The words of the Lord Jesus, at the instruction of her Vilnius confessor Fr. M. Sopoćko, were underlined in pencil, which in some editions is marked in bold or italics.

The “Diary” in electronic form is available at: www.saint-faustina.org, in its various language versions, and in the app “Faustyna.pl.”