Showing posts with label mystic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mystic. Show all posts

Friday, 6 March 2026

1702) Faustina Kowalska

Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament (born Helena Kowalska; 1905 – 1938). Polish Catholic religious sister and mystic. Faustyna, popularly spelled Faustina in English, had apparitions of Jesus Christ which inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy, therefore she is sometimes called the "secretary" of Divine Mercy.

Throughout her life, Kowalska reported having visions of Jesus and conversations with him, which she noted in her diary, later published as The Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul. 

At the age of 20 years, she joined a convent in Warsaw. She was later transferred to Płock and then to Vilnius. The Catholic Church canonized Kowalska as a saint on 30 April 2000. Her tomb is in the Divine Mercy Sanctuary, Kraków, where she spent the end of her life.


- "A red-haired, bouncing Polish baby girl named Helen certainly did when she was born 119 years ago today into the home of a poor, peasant family who had its priorities straight."   https://www.thedivinemercy.org/articles/happy-119th-birthday-st-faustina#:~:text=It%20helps%20to%20have%20a,who%20had%20its%20priorities%20straight.


- "I discovered a red-haired and freckled young woman who, before entering the convent, loved to dress fashionably!https://www.radiantmagazine.com/2019/02/18/my-friend-st-faustina/ 


Helena Kowalska before entering the convent

Portrait painting of Faustina Kowalska


Friday, 23 August 2019

1010) Sheikh Ahmad-e Jami

Ahmad Ibn Abolhasan Jāmi-e Nāmaghi-e Torshizi (1048 - 1141), better known as Sheikh Ahhmad-e Jami or simply Ahmad-e Jam. Persian Sufi, Sufi writer, mystic and poet.
After living in seclusion for more than twenti years, at the age of forty he returned to society to guide the people and make wine-drinkers and sinners to repent. At first he was not appreciated by the people, but after several miraculous healings, his reputation spread and he attracted some followers. He won many converts from the villages outlying Jâm. Shaykh Ahmad's activity therefore stretched across a territory that triangulates the modern borders of eastern Iran, northern Afghanistan and southern Turkmenistan.

- "Medieval accounts describe him as having red hair, a wine-colored beard and dark-blue eyes."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Ahmad-e_Jami



Friday, 31 August 2018

651) Grigori Rasputin

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (1869 – 1916). Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Tsar Nicholas II, the last monarch of Russia, and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia.
He has been described as a monk or as a "strannik" (wanderer, or pilgrim), though he held no official position in the Russian Orthodox Church. After traveling to St. Petersburg, either in 1903 or the winter of 1904–5, Rasputin captivated some church and social leaders. He became a society figure, and met the Tsar in November 1905.
In late 1906, Rasputin began acting as a healer for the Tsar and his wife Alexandra's son Alexei, who suffered from hemophilia and was Nicholas' only heir (Tsarevitch).
In the early morning of 30 December 1916, Rasputin was assassinated by a group of conservative noblemen who opposed his influence over Alexandra and the Tsar.
Some writers have suggested that Rasputin helped discredit the tsarist government, and thus helped precipitate the Russian Revolution and the fall of the Romanov dynasty. Very little about Rasputin's life and influence is certain, however, as accounts have often been based on hearsay, rumor, and legend.


- "Handsome, with long reddish hair and beard, broad shouldered, vigorous and erect, Rasputin had an extraordinary personality..." https://www.fontanka.co.uk/firsttoseventhjanuary

- "She was almost as tall as Gregory, her blond hair contrasted sharply with his unruly auburn locks." https://www.proza.ru/2013/06/14/332



Sunday, 17 June 2018

109) Henry Wentworth Monk

Henry Wentworth Monk (1827 – 1896). Canadian Christian Zionist, mystic, Messianist, and millenarian.