What is the Divine Mercy Chaplet?
The short answer
The Divine Mercy Chaplet is a prayer said on ordinary rosary beads, believed to have been given by Christ to St. Faustina Kowalska (1905–38) as a way of imploring God's mercy on sinners.
The devotion
The chaplet is prayed on standard rosary beads. It is believed to have been given by Christ to St. Faustina Kowalska as a means of asking God's mercy for sinners.
Its source
St. Faustina recorded her visions of Christ and the Blessed Virgin in her diary, Divine Mercy in My Soul.
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