Divine Mercy image

The image of Jesus the Divine Mercy or short The Good Jesus is a painting depicting Jesus Christ according to Saint Faustina Kowalska the description of the ( 1905-1938 ). Their vision was a total artistic form in triplicate, using the image of Adolf Hyła has attained the greatest popularity and is used in countless copies and reproductions worldwide.

Vision

Sr. Faustina, at the Convent of their order in Płock, describes in a diary entry of February 22, 1931 their vision of Jesus, his mission to capture the vision in an image, and its promise for all who adore this picture:

Vision and mission are linked with the issue of embodied in Jesus Divine Mercy, which is to be paid to a private religious holiday.

The vision is closely related to the Sacred Heart devotion, whose basic motif also transfered from the open Heart of Jesus mercy streams of blood and water ( Jn 19:34 EU).

History of images

Eugeniusz Kazimirowski

Sr. Faustina first tried to paint the picture of Jesus himself, but what it lacked the prerequisites. In Płock and after her transfer to Warsaw she came with her concerns with little understanding. Only in the convent of Vilnius found 1933 Michał Sopoćko a confessor who took seriously their vision and the associated order. He asked in 1934 the painter Eugeniusz Kazimirowski to paint the picture for Sr. Faustynas description. This was the beauty of their vision in the finished work only incompletely rendered, but later accepted it.

Sopoćko it reached that Kazimirowskis image during the closing ceremony of the Holy Year was 1933/34, three days issued on Gate of Dawn in Vilnius. Soon small copies of the image are produced and sold.

After several intermediate stations located Kazimirowskis original image since 2005 at the Shrine of Divine Mercy in Vilnius.

Stanisław Batowski

Sr. Faustynas order, the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, in turn commissioned in the late 1930s Stanisław Batowski with the production of an image. Meanwhile subsequently created painting was destroyed by fire. A second reached the Convention concurrently with Adolf Hylas version, and Cardinal Sapieha, who was present, it was decided for this.

Adolf Hyła

The painter Adolf Hyła offered 1943 the sisters of the convent in Krakow - Łagiewniki where Sr. Faustina had died in 1938, as a votive offering for the preservation of his family in the last years of the war, the making of an altarpiece for their chapel. The sisters showed him a reproduction of Kazimirowskis representation of the Merciful Jesus and the description in the Sr. Faustynas diary. On this basis Hyła created his stand-alone version. After a first version, which was too big for the chapel of the Sisters, he painted in 1944, a second, which today hangs in the Shrine of Divine Mercy in Krakow - Łagiewniki. They originally had a floral background, which was painted in 1954. This image has probably prevailed as the Jesus picture of the Divine Mercy also because of its compared to Kazimirowski less " discrete ", considered by many as " effeminate " perceived representation, in churches and homes.