1905 - 1938
Maria Faustyna Kowalska (born Helena Kowalska; 25 August 1905 – 5 October 1938), also known as Saint Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament and popularly spelled Faustina, was a Polish Roman Catholic nun and mystic. Her apparitions of Jesus Christ inspired the Roman Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy and earned her the title of "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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Faustina Kowalska has received more than 1,168,120 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Faustina Kowalska is the 343rd most popular religious figure (up from 354th in 2019), the 56th most popular biography from Poland (up from 65th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Religious Figure.
Faustina Kowalska was a Polish nun and mystic who claimed to have seen a vision of Jesus Christ. She was canonized by the Catholic Church in 2000.
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Among religious figures, Faustina Kowalska ranks 343 out of 2,272. Before her are Pope Callixtus I, Pope Clement II, Pope Symmachus, Idris, Pope Adrian V, and Pope Eutychian. After her are Pope John XIX, Pope Sylvester III, Pope Vitalian, Pope Martin I, Pope Cornelius, and Pope Lando.
180 - 223
HPI: 76.88
Rank: 337
1005 - 1047
HPI: 76.88
Rank: 338
460 - 514
HPI: 76.86
Rank: 339
3500 BC - Present
HPI: 76.85
Rank: 340
1205 - 1276
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 341
300 - 283
HPI: 76.80
Rank: 342
1905 - 1938
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 343
975 - 1032
HPI: 76.76
Rank: 344
1000 - 1060
HPI: 76.74
Rank: 345
600 - 672
HPI: 76.74
Rank: 346
590 - 655
HPI: 76.72
Rank: 347
200 - 253
HPI: 76.65
Rank: 348
900 - 914
HPI: 76.65
Rank: 349
Among people born in 1905, Faustina Kowalska ranks 12. Before her are Christian Dior, Greta Garbo, Henry Fonda, Elias Canetti, Viktor Frankl, and Dag Hammarskjöld. After her are Astrid of Sweden, Mikhail Sholokhov, Carl David Anderson, Felix Bloch, Vasily Grossman, and Arthur Koestler. Among people deceased in 1938, Faustina Kowalska ranks 9. Before her are Georges Méliès, Konstantin Stanislavski, Karel Čapek, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Nikolai Bukharin, and Béla Kun. After her are Kanō Jigorō, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Karl Kautsky, Robert Johnson, Thomas Wolfe, and Carl von Ossietzky.
1905 - 1957
HPI: 81.11
Rank: 6
1905 - 1990
HPI: 80.99
Rank: 7
1905 - 1982
HPI: 80.36
Rank: 8
1905 - 1994
HPI: 80.34
Rank: 9
1905 - 1997
HPI: 80.15
Rank: 10
1905 - 1961
HPI: 79.51
Rank: 11
1905 - 1938
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 12
1905 - 1935
HPI: 76.37
Rank: 13
1905 - 1984
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 14
1905 - 1991
HPI: 75.50
Rank: 15
1905 - 1983
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 16
1905 - 1964
HPI: 74.30
Rank: 17
1905 - 1983
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 18
1861 - 1938
HPI: 79.74
Rank: 3
1863 - 1938
HPI: 79.72
Rank: 4
1890 - 1938
HPI: 78.91
Rank: 5
1880 - 1938
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 6
1888 - 1938
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 7
1886 - 1938
HPI: 77.05
Rank: 8
1905 - 1938
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 9
1860 - 1938
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 10
1861 - 1938
HPI: 76.40
Rank: 11
1854 - 1938
HPI: 76.28
Rank: 12
1911 - 1938
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 13
1900 - 1938
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 14
1889 - 1938
HPI: 75.25
Rank: 15
Among people born in Poland, Faustina Kowalska ranks 56 out of 1,231. Before her are Casimir III the Great (1310), Gustav Fechner (1801), Tamara de Lempicka (1898), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Christian Wolff (1679), and Otto Stern (1888). After her are Andrzej Wajda (1926), Ferdinand Lassalle (1825), Norbert Elias (1897), Krzysztof Penderecki (1933), Władysław III of Poland (1424), and Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923).
1310 - 1370
HPI: 77.03
Rank: 50
1801 - 1887
HPI: 76.92
Rank: 51
1898 - 1980
HPI: 76.91
Rank: 52
1862 - 1946
HPI: 76.88
Rank: 53
1679 - 1754
HPI: 76.87
Rank: 54
1888 - 1969
HPI: 76.83
Rank: 55
1905 - 1938
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 56
1926 - 2016
HPI: 76.73
Rank: 57
1825 - 1864
HPI: 76.68
Rank: 58
1897 - 1990
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 59
1933 - 2020
HPI: 76.43
Rank: 60
1424 - 1444
HPI: 76.38
Rank: 61
1923 - 2014
HPI: 76.37
Rank: 62
Among religious figures born in Poland, Faustina Kowalska ranks 3. Before her are Pope John Paul II (1920) and Maximilian Kolbe (1894). After her are Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906), Saint Casimir (1458), Angelus Silesius (1624), Itzhak Stern (1901), Stanislaus Kostka (1550), Stanislaus of Szczepanów (1030), Hyacinth of Poland (1185), Stefan Wyszyński (1901), and Stanisław Dziwisz (1939).
1920 - 2005
HPI: 89.13
Rank: 1
1894 - 1941
HPI: 78.66
Rank: 2
1905 - 1938
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 3
1906 - 1945
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 4
1458 - 1484
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 5
1624 - 1677
HPI: 73.33
Rank: 6
1901 - 1969
HPI: 71.59
Rank: 7
1550 - 1568
HPI: 69.27
Rank: 8
1030 - 1079
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 9
1185 - 1257
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 10
1901 - 1981
HPI: 67.23
Rank: 11
1939 - Present
HPI: 67.06
Rank: 12