On April 30, 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized Maria Faustina Kowalska and declared the second Sunday of Easter as Divine Mercy Sunday. This year, we celebrate the feast on April 27. In his ...

St. John Paul II called Faustina’s canonization and Divine Mercy Sunday the happiest day of his life — a summit moment of his papacy and personal mission. Pope John Paul II laughs during a gat ...

John Paul II and Francis died during the ... It is thus fitting that Pope Francis be buried on the vigil of Divine Mercy Sunday, a gift from God to which he, like John Paul, was devoted.

Along the way, Pope St. John Paul II canonized St. Faustina, recipient of the mercy message, as the first saint of the new millennium, on April 30, 2000, and at the same time declared Divine Mercy ...

“Back in the Jubilee year of 2000, 25 years ago, Pope John Paul II at that time established this feast of the Divine Mercy, which was actually requested by Jesus himself through the diary of St ...

And how have the Holy Fathers encouraged devotion? Pope John Paul II’s passing away on the vigil of Divine Mercy Sunday in 2005 reawakened the interest in St. Faustina’s message of Divine ...

A new pilgrim treks twice to The National Shrine of the Divine Mercy ... A glass case held the zucchetto cap of Pope St. John Paul II given to the national shrine in 2000, shortly after St ...