Saint Faustina Kowalska - a Mystical Profile Reflected in a Spiritual Autobiography
Saint Faustina Kowalska - a Mystical Profile Reflected in a Spiritual Autobiography
Author(s): Iuliu-Marius MorariuSubject(s): Theology and Religion, Religion and science , Sociology of Religion, History of Religion
Published by: Asociaţiunea Transilvană pentru Literatura Română şi Cultura Poporului Român - ASTRA
Keywords: Faustina Kowalska; Poland; mystical vocation; prayer; Eucharist; Catholic space;
Summary/Abstract: Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska is an important contemporary mystic vocation from the Catholic space. Her diary represents a valuable piece of the genre of spiritualautobiography. For this reason, we will try in this research to bring into attention her spiritual life,activity and the way how she contributes to the enrichment of the spiritual literature witheecumenical value. Together with the ones of Teresa of Calcutta and Pope John Paul the Second,her writings represent the most important contemporary spiritual autobiographies from theCatholic space in the contemporary period. For this reason, we will try there to emphasize themand to speak about the way how, through these notes, Kowalska reveals her spiritual concerns andachievements and can offer solutions to some of the problems of contemporary faithful or createbridges between the spiritualties of different Christian traditions.
Journal: Astra Salvensis - revista de istorie si cultura
- Issue Year: VIII/2020
- Issue No: 15
- Page Range: 191-198
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English