Bazylika Bożego Miłosierdzia w Krakowie-Łagiewnikach

This guide to the Basilica of Divine Mercy in Kraków-Łagiewniki opens on the morning of October 5, 1938, with the death of a barely-educated young nun named Faustina Kowalska in a convent infirmary on this site. It follows the diary she left behind, describing visions that asked her to have a specific image painted, and the wartime painter who finally completed it as a private thank you for surviving the occupation. Church authorities, wary of her visions, moved to ban devotion to that image for nearly two decades before its fortunes changed.