Canon Law Digest, 1959

CANON 1395

Sister Faustina Kowalska: Writings (Holy Office, 6 March, 1959) AAS 51-271.

A Notification by tbe Holy Office:

The Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, having examined the alleged visions and revelations of Sister Faustina Kowalska of the Institute of Our Lady of Mercy, who died in 1938 near Cracow, has decreed as follows:

1. The distribution of pictures and writings which present the
devotion to the Divine Mercy in the forms proposed by this
Sister Faustina, should be forbidden;

2. It is left to the prudent discretion of the Bishops to remove
such pictures which may have been already exposed for worship.
From the Holy Office, 6 March, 1959.

AAS 51-271; Holy Office, Notification, 6 March, 1959.